Confirming the proverb that they are among the most precise and punctual in the world, the Swiss have decided to confirm every taboo and open a new museum right at the beginning of the new year. In fact, still in full swing to welcome in the new year last year Muzeum Susch Susch was inaugurated on January XNUMX, in the town of the same name Swiss Alps. The new pole was wanted by the Polish art collector, considered one of the richest entrepreneurs in the country, Grazyna Kulczyk. The museum is located inside an ancient XNUMXth century monastery and was restored by Swiss architects Chasper Schmidlin and Lukas Voellmy, who have deliberately preserved the previous structure and reduced interventions on the surrounding landscape to a minimum. In detail, the new Swiss museum which will be both a museum and a laboratory, adopting experimental approaches to contemporary art, as reported by "Il Giornale dell'Arte".
The second opening of the year will take place next February 9 at the Norton Museum of Art, which will inaugurate the most expensive expansion in its 78-year history, amounting to 100 million dollars. The museum is located at West Palm Beach in Florida, USA, and its renovation was funded by Foster + Partners. The renovation involves 11 thousand meters of additional exhibition space and a new building in which to reorganize the entrance to the museum. The Ruth and Carl Shapiro Great hall will be the central focus of the new floor plan, while the historic side structures will serve as self-contained halls housing artist-in-residence.
Waiting for the March 28, 2019 the opening of the National Museum of Qatar in Doha. The museum is an important structure that shows the socio-cultural connections of the Islamic world and the economic-intellectual ones to the world. The exhibition section is divided chronologically into three different moments: "the beginnings", which describes the geological period before human settlement on the peninsula, a second area called "Life in Qatar" and, finally, "Construction of the nation". The project was commissioned to the French architect Jean Nouvel who let himself be inspired by the desert rose and organized the structure according to superimposed and intertwined discs.
New York will have to wait for spring, the 5th April precisely, to see the inauguration of the The shed, the new interdisciplinary arts center located on the West Side of Manhattan, near the recently built corridor of the High Line, a project born from the collaboration between architects James Corner, Piet Oudolf and Charles Renfo. “The original idea was relatively simple: to provide a venue for artists across all disciplines to make and present work to audiences from all walks of life,” explained museum director Alex Poots. The museum features a mobile outer shell that moves on steel rails doubling the exhibition area. The cost of the project in its entirety amounts to 550 million dollars.
It's China's turn: the Centre Pompidou will open a half 2019 a new branch a Shanghai, the West Bund Art Museum. The project was entrusted to the British architect David Chipperfield who, in the 25 square meters available, will create the spaces where exhibitions will be held with paintings from the collection of the Parisian institution.
We return to New York during the summer for the 450 million dollar expansion of the MoMA, which, according to the project by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, will add 30% to the existing exhibition spaces. The project began way back in 2011 with the purchase of the neighboring Folk Art Museum with the aim of incorporating it into MoMA's expansion plan. In the new museum of modern art in New York, there will be new spaces dedicated to contemporary design and cinema, as well as an expanded entrance and larger exhibition areas on the upper floors.
September means Germany. On the occasion of the celebrations for the XNUMXth anniversary of the Bauhaus school a new museum venue of 3.500 square meters will be inaugurated in Dessau and designed by the Barcelona collective addenda architects with the aim of hosting the 49 pieces of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation: “The years that the Bauhaus spent in Dessau (1925-1932) are considered the most fruitful period of the school founded in Weimar in 1919”, reads the official press release of the museum.
A good 595 million euros, 80% financed by the federal government, the cost of opening the new museum complex Humboldt Forum in Berlin, inside the Royal Palace rebuilt on the project of the architect Franco Stella. The new Berlin museum will feature collections of non-European and Asian ethnic art, a permanent exhibition of the city's history, spaces for temporary exhibitions and a research laboratory run by Humboldt University. “The inauguration will be a story divided into several chapters, he says. We have all the elements and now we are preparing the choreography. Remember, we're talking about 40 square meters, 30 of which are accessible to the public. When I walk through the building with visitors it takes two hours, and that without exhibits,” said new museum director Hartmut Dorgerloh. 3 million visitors a year are expected. The museum is open to the public on 14 September 2019, the 250th birth anniversary of explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt.
The donation of 1323 works from the Essl Collection to the Albertina Museum and valued at around 90 million euros will be contained within a new exhibition space for contemporary art in the heart of the Austrian capital. The renovation of the structure cost 40 million and the cost will be covered by the Haselsteiner Familien Privatstiftung of the industrialist Hans Peter Haselsteiner.
At the end of the year we go to Moscow with the opening of a new artistic center which rises where there was an old power station near the Kremlin and will be called Jesus-2. The project was entrusted to Renzo Piano.
The year is so covered, now it will only be necessary to point your finger on the map and organize the next holidays this time following the art.
