The Justin Art House Museum (JAHM) is very much about the intersection of art and architecture. This is reflected not only in the building, where art commissions have been integrated into the building and in which the building has been designed to house art, but also in the collection with its strong focus on architecture and space, reflecting the duality of Charles Justin’s life as an architect and art collector.

In the modern era, there is quite a distinction between art and architecture. Architecture has to be functional and architects are constrained by the client’s brief, the site conditions, the budget, regulations, legal obligations, time constraints and coordinating a range of collaborators such as consultants, contractors and trades people to deliver the building.

Artists on the other hand are free of most of these constraints. So, what are they saying about architecture and the built world?

The exhibition for 2024, ARTitecture: Artists Visioning the World Built by Man consists of 35 works drawn from the collection including paintings, sculptures, mixed media, photography, digital media and video.

"As the collectors, we undertook the curation, including the formulation of the curatorial essay. We sequenced the works to reflect the architectural process from conception to documentation to realization, to completion to utilization and termination."

They regard artists as visual philosophers, and consequently their works in this exhibition offer reflection, commentary, analysis, criticism and propositions about architecture and the built world. They often challenge us to see things from an alternative perspective, but above all to think about the world we have built and live in.

Further information can be found on the JAHM website.