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Cranford Collection
One of Europe’s Most Important Collections with Renowned Contemporaries in Regent’s Park – London
Copenhagen Contemporary
Copenhagen based contemporary art collector, Peter Ibsen, shares his love for all things monochrome. Read about what sparked his passion for black and white (and the grey in between) and see inside his collection here.
TBA21
In a public park in Vienna stands Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary – a foundation that hosts the collection of Francesca von Habsburg.
HAVRLANT ART COLLECTION
Interview with Kateřina Havrlant
STUDIO BERLIN – Boros Foundation x Berghain
We are here with insight into the seductive new Berlin happening, STUDIO BERLIN, with an interview with Karen Boros and Juliet Kothe, Artistic Directors of the project.
Austrian Contemporary Art
Sliced into the green hills of Austria's Carinthia district you'll find the sleek, exposed concrete building that the Museum Liaunig calls home.
HOW DO YOU BECOME AN ART COLLECTOR?
BERGSON Kunstkraftwerk invites you to an evening featuring the documentary “BEFORE & AFTER“, the intimate story of a collection, directed by film maker, Anne de Boismilon- Titze, about the Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection, followed by a panel on how to present private collections to the public.
Featured Collections
Living Collection
Gary Yeh and Francesca Gavin meet with architect and collector William Lim in Hong Kong.
Seth Stolbun
The Houston native collector almost exclusively acquires works from artists that he has a personal relationship with
We Still Have Wild Birds Here
Overlooked American artist Gene Beery (b. 1937), declared and depicted reflections in his paintings with a relevant truth and irony that is no less today.
Givon Art Forum
Only when artworks circulate can they generate ideas
CARMELO GRACI
“Buying ‘difficult’ works gives shape to a collection, which otherwise would be standardized on all the others.”
Dimitris Daskalopoulos
Arterritory's Una Meistere in conversation with the Greek collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos.
Imperfect Chronology
Arab Art from the Modern to the Contemporary: The Barjeel Art Foundation Collection at London’s Whitechapel Gallery.
Looking To The End
Listed as one of the “fifty most interesting collections assembled by people under fifty”, Polish collector Michal Borowik has already made his mark on the contemporary art collecting scene.
A Tribute to Minimal and Conceptual Art
Venet strove to acquire museum quality artwork from the very beginning.
Artist As Collector – Rashid Al Khalifa
An interview surrounding IC’s exploration, ‘Artist As Collector’ with Bahrain based Rashid Al Khalifa.
Nature is Equilibrium
Installation views from the Fondazione Merz
The Donum Collection
Wine tasting and Crouching Spider by Louise Bourgeois
OPINIONS
To the patrons of tomorrow
Laurie Rojas on the future of art patronage and how to nurture enthusiasm for good art, worldly sensibility, curiosity, and connoisseurship.
Why I Stopped Being A Collector (And Started To Collect)
by Benjamin Kaufmann
The Rediscovery of Wonder
»Good art is rarely simple, but it is hardly ever incomprehensible, « says Christian Kaspar Schwarm, IC founder and avid collector who has never lost his excitement for complexity.
The BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors
The 7th edition of the BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors takes you to more than 304 collections in 51 countries and 224 cities.
»Nobody has been to all these places«
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Join the next Edition
Each year, our curators select 300 private collections for the BMW ART GUIDE by INDEPENDENT COLLECTORS. The requirements for collections are that they must be a) contemporary, b) open for visitors (by appointment only or regular opening hours, and c) of a certain relevance (which our team evaluates). If you would like to submit your collection for consideration, please get in touch.
Collection Visits
Curator Joey Lico teams up with artist Alexis Diaz to visit the mighty Rubell Museum in Miami.
Museum Brandhorst
Francesca Gavin and Benjamin Jaworskyj explore this dazzling space in Munich.
Museum Liaunig
Nuriel Molcho and Francesca Gavin travel out of Vienna to hillside Carinthia, to meet with Peter Liaunig.
Living Collection
Gary Yeh and Francesca Gavin meet with architect and collector William Lim in Hong Kong.
Kaviarfactory
DJ Cassy and Francesca Gavin meet with collectors Venke and Rolf A. Hoff in Henningsvær, Norway.
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