New Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolzano, South Tyrol
Museion, a new Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, is set to open in the Italian city of Bolzano/Bozen this Saturday, 24 May 2008.
Designed by the award-winning Berlin architecture studio KSV (Krüger, Schuberth, Vandreike), Museion has striking architecture and a cubic form that has strong visual impact, with largely transparent front and rear façades. At night the façades will transform into a projection screen for installations created by artists, making it the world’s first 24 hour gallery and there will also be an atelier-house for artists beneath the Museion creating an “art factory”.
The Museion building and its bridge over the Talvera / Talfer River present physical and symbolic links between the German-speaking and Italian-speaking parts of the city.
Due to the peculiarity of the museum’s trilingual Italian, German and Ladin-speaking location, the focus of the collections will be “language in art”, building on the relationships between art and literature in art initiated in the 1960s.
Visitors to the museum will be able to enjoy works of art by a range of contemporary artists. The building’s interior spaces have been designed to be fluid with no rigid divisions between the different areas of the museum, such as the exhibition and performance areas, library, cafeteria and shop.
Nestled in the Italian Alps of South Tyrol, north of Verona and south of Innsbruck, the new Museion and its location in the heart of Bolzano’s historical centre signifies a link between the city’s strong sense of cultural history and new-found progressiveness.
The new Museion will form a focus for visitors to South Tyrol interested in the local artistic movement, and its opening coincides with Merano-born Rudolf Stingel exhibiting at the influential Saatchi Gallery in London and fellow South Tyrolean Martino Gamper being awarded the ‘Best Alchemist’ award by Wallpaper Magazine.
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