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Immersive David Bowie Exhibition Opens at London’s Lightroom

Producers use Bowie’s voice with rare footage to offer an archive-first alternative to holograms.

Overview

  • The exhibition, which opened Wednesday, runs through October 10 at Lightroom in King’s Cross with tickets available now.
  • The hour-long film fills four walls with 360-degree visuals and floor projections, using spatial audio by sound designer Gareth Fry.
  • The narrative is built from hundreds of hours of Bowie’s recorded interviews, presenting his ideas in themed chapters rather than a strict timeline.
  • Producers working with the Bowie estate drew on extensive archive material, including re-edited concert and rehearsal footage and a clip from his final full show at the 2004 Hurricane Festival.
  • Early reviews from The Times, British Vogue and the Evening Standard praise the show’s emotional punch and note a parallel ‘Bowie Nights’ events program at the venue.