Collector and philanthropist David Walsh has created Australia’s largest private museum.
Located on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) displays the diversity of Walsh’s private art collection that ranges from ancient to modern to contemporary art, featuring artists such as Erwin Wurm, Gelitin, Anselm Kiefer, Christian Boltanski, Wim Delvoye or Brigita Ozolin to name but a few.
Here on IC, the passionate collector shares a selection of pieces that are on permanent view and are well worth a trip down under.
WILFREDO PRIETO, Untitled (White Library), 2004-2006. Courtesy of MONA Museum of Old and New Art. Photo: MONA/Rémi Chauvin
WILFREDO PRIETO, Untitled (White Library), 2004-2006. Courtesy of MONA Museum of Old and New Art. Photo: MONA/Rémi Chauvin
ROMAN SIGNER, Engpass, 2000-2011. Courtesy of MONA Museum of Old and New Art. Photo: MONA/Rémi Chauvin
ROMAN SIGNER, Engpass, 2000-2011, MONA Museum of Old and New Art
JANNIS KOUNELLIS, Untitled, 2002 and SIR SIDNEY NOLAN, Snake, 1970-1972. Courtesy of MONA Museum of Old and New Art. Photo: MONA/Rémi Chauvin
WIM DELVOYE , Cloaca Professional, 2010. WIM DELVOYE , Cloaca Professional, 2010. Courtesy of MONA Museum of Old and New Art. Photo: MONA/Leigh Carmichael
WIM DELVOYE, Flatbed Truck, Trailer and Cement Truck, 2007. Courtesy of MONA Museum of Old and New Art. Photo: MONA/Rémi Chauvin
WIM DELVOYE, Chapel, 2010-2011. Courtesy of MONA Museum of Old and New Art. Photo: MONA/Rémi Chauvin
