Echoverse by Tomislav Topić Echoverse transforms the chapel into a luminous chromatic environment
Les 3 CHA presents Echoverse, a site-specific installation by Tomislav Topić. It transforms the chapel into a layered environment shaped entirely by color and suspended form.
From 11 October to 14 December 2025, the space becomes an atmospheric field where painted fiberglass surfaces appear to drift overhead, creating a sense of continuous motion through their shifting density and translucent character.
Each surface interacts with the next, forming a network of floating planes that guide the visitor’s trajectory and produce an ever-changing reading of the environment.
Tomislav Topić constructs the work as a constellation set in tension with the chapel’s static architecture. The suspended pieces introduce a sense of flow that contrasts the rigid geometry of the interior walls and vaulted ceiling.
Their placement encourages visitors to move slowly beneath the installation, observing how the layers collect or disperse according to each position in space.
This interaction generates an evolving chromatic effect, allowing the installation to function almost like a kinetic organism shaped by the viewer’s path.
Light becomes a primary material within the project. The chapel’s stained-glass windows serve as an integral counterpart, echoing the medieval tradition of modulating daylight.
As natural illumination passes through the fiberglass surfaces, it is filtered, refracted, and recomposed into soft gradients that envelop the room.
The result is an environment where color is experienced not only visually but physically, with each step giving rise to new visual conditions.
Echoverse presents the chapel as a temporary cosmos made of shifting hues. Rather than proposing a narrative, the installation offers an open field of perception in which visitors can shape their own interpretation.
The relationship between architecture, materials, and light forms a sensory continuum that situates the viewer at the center of a constantly transitioning space.
The work operates as a visual echo to the stained glass above, replacing storytelling with an abstract experience anchored in presence and perception.
Tomislav Topić, born in Hanover in 1985 and now based in Berlin, grounds his artistic practice in the fundamentals of color and form. A graduate of the color design program at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hildesheim, he has developed an international reputation over the past fifteen years.
His early collaboration within the duo Quintessenz led to numerous large-scale works in public space, from Singapore to Doha, Paris, and Berlin.
His solo practice maintains a focus on immersive environments that shift with light, perspective, and movement, presenting space as a living system shaped by chromatic intensity and material transparency.
Photography by Vanessa Kronschwitz, with courtesy of Tomislav Topić, shared with permission
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