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Buckhorn Sculpture Park
Located in the scenic town of Pound Ridge, New York, you’ll find the private home of collector couple Sherry and Joel Mallin and their Buckhorn Sculpture Park.
YSMA Collection
Prince Yemisi Shyllon transformed Africa's largest private art collection into Nigeria's most groundbreaking university museum.
A Tribute to Minimal and Conceptual Art
Venet strove to acquire museum quality artwork from the very beginning.
Katalin Spengler & Zsolt Somlói
The Hungarian couple dedicated to opening up the local collector community to international contemporary art.
Featured Collections
Zuzāns Collection
Zuzeum Art Centre houses the largest private collection of Latvian art in the world
Elayne & Marvin Mordes
The sun has just risen over the eaves when we meet on Park Avenue one peaceful January morning and Marvin and Elayne Mordes seem just the way we’d had hoped – warm, open and sympathetic.
JAHM – Justin Art House Museum
Given its spacious and unorthodox design, the JAHM looks more like a public exhibition venue than a private residence.
The Sifang Art Museum
A unique collection of contemporary art, architecture and design relevant to the time and space of the now.
Palazzo Daniele
Minimalism meets majesty at Palazzo Daniele where monastic décor exaggerates the grandeur of ceiling frescoes and standalone art works
Barbara Maj Husted Werner
An interview with the collector combining art with the everyday life.
Kunststiftung Meier-Linnert
German collector, Gerd Meier-Linnert, is someone who sees the beauty in simple shapes.
Museum Liaunig
Nuriel Molcho and Francesca Gavin travel out of Vienna to hillside Carinthia, to meet with Peter Liaunig.
Sara Theresa Birn Lysgaard
Life and art cannot be separated when it comes to Sara Theresa Birn Lysgaard’s art collection.
Rossini Art Site — Sculpture Park
Art park that fuses sculpture, architecture, and landscape
The Art of Recollecting
A selection of artworks from the Hildebrand Collection that explore individual and collective memories.
Ricky Dhingra
Mystic Creations
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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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.
SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen
In the spacious rooms of a former industrial hall, Peter and Christiane Schaufler’s collection of contemporary art becomes an experience.
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.
Kaviarfactory
DJ Cassy and Francesca Gavin meet with collectors Venke and Rolf A. Hoff in Henningsvær, Norway.
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