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Museum Angerlehner
Inside one of Austria's leading private museums of contemporary art
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.
Klocker Museum
A Collection Of Modern and Contemporary Art in Hall in Tyrol, Austria
Irmina Nazar & Artur Trawinski
The Polish collectors raising awareness on Eastern European Art.
Featured Collections
Kunst(Zeug)Haus
An extensive private collection of Swiss contemporary art of the last fifty years
CARMELO GRACI
“Buying ‘difficult’ works gives shape to a collection, which otherwise would be standardized on all the others.”
KASTEEL WIJLRE ESTATE
A Meeting Place for Contemporary Art and Nature
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.
Katalin Spengler & Zsolt Somlói
The Hungarian couple dedicated to opening up the local collector community to international contemporary art.
Rossini Art Site — Sculpture Park
Art park that fuses sculpture, architecture, and landscape
Behind Your Eyes
Tobias Gombert is an art collector who just loves to learn.
Transylvanian Visions
A fervent promoter and collector of Contemporary Romanian Art, with a special focus on the artistic phenomenon of the Cluj School.
Radical Collecting Part II
A view insight the collection of Frans Oomen.
RAK Art Foundation
Bahraini artist and collector Shaikh Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa’s childhood home
The Dikeou Collection – Part I
Founded in 1998 by the siblings Pany and Devon Dikeou, the Dikeou Collection is located in downtown Denver.
Brick Bay Sculpture Trail
Richard and Christine Didsbury showcase New Zealand’s leading artists
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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Money laundering compliance for the art sector and high-value goods trade – one platform for all legal challenges.
