064 ARTISTS STUDIOS
By opening their own gallery space, Gilbert and George join a growing list of illustrious artists with their own museums, including Frida Kahlo, whose Blue House in Mexico City exhibits her work in the building where she was born, raised and died. In Barcelona, the Fundació Joan Miró, designed by Josep Lluís Sert, honours the life and work of Miró, holding 10,000 of the artist’s paintings, drawings, sculptures, stage designs and carpets. Te city is also home to the Museu Picasso, which houses an extensive collection of works by the Spanish master, who also has museums in Málaga, Paris, Antibes and Münster. One of the most famous artist museums is, of course, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which since 1973 has honoured the eponymous artist’s life and work in its Gerrit Rietveld-designed building and, since 1999, hosted temporary exhibits in a separate building designed by Kisho Kuokawa. Te museum holds the most substantial collection of Van Gogh’s works anywhere in the world and this year is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a series of special exhibitions including ‘Van Gogh in Auvers: His Final Months’, focusing on the artist’s time in the French village of Auvers- sur-Oise just prior to his death. Celebrated works such as Wheatfield with Crows and Tree Roots (both 1890) are among the 50 paintings included in the exhibition, many of which have never been exhibited together before.
One of the world’s largest buildings dedicated to a single artist is the new Munch museum in Oslo, Norway, which opened in 2021 to replace the original 1963 building in Tøyen designed by Norwegian architects Einar Myklebust and Gunnar Fougner. Te new 13-storey waterfront museum was designed by Spanish architects Estudio Herreros and houses the world’s most expansive collection of works by Edvard Munch, including his most famous painting
Te Scream (1893). Te prominent structure with its distinctive aluminium facade and leaning form is situated close to the Oslo Opera House. Rising to a height of 60m, it provides more than 26,000 sq m of exhibition space, with the top floor observation deck offering stunning views overlooking the city. Te museum’s collection consists of more than 28,000 artworks bequeathed by the artist to the municipality of Oslo upon his death in 1944.
While Munch had been involved with early discussions about a future museum dedicated to his art, he didn’t live to see the
City of Oslo approve the project. Conversely, the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí not only designed a museum dedicated to himself but lived in it from 1984 until his death in 1989. Devised with architects Joaquim de Ros i de Ramis and Alexandre Bonaterra, the Dalí Teatre and Museum in the artist’s hometown of Figueres, in Catalonia, Spain, is built on the site of the town’s former theatre, which burned down during the Spanish Civil War. Construction of the museum began in 1969 and it opened in September 1974. It houses the largest and most diverse collection of works by Dalí, including paintings, sculptures
By opening their own
gallery space, Gilbert and George join a growing list of illustrious artists with their own museums.
Right The popular Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, built in 1973.
Below The bold exterior of the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City.
ROD WADDINGTON
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