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Vers le tableau

Exhibition from the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, featuring major works from French artist Pierre Dunoyer.

PIERRE DUNOYER, Noir, 1983. Courtesy Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, Dubai

Centered around Dunoyer’s interest in abstraction, “Vers le tableau” looks to differentiate between “tableau” and painting, through composition, color, form and movement

Dunoyer’s connection with abstraction is immersed within the realms of art, history and philosophy, and over the past thirty-five years has become an integral focus of his work, specifically within the sphere of the painted object, with the aim of the “tableau” being here in the present. Open until the 26th October 2017, “Vers le tableau” presents works by Pierre Dunoyer that are included in the private collection of the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation.

PIERRE DUNOYER, Marron, 2011. Courtesy Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, Dubai

PIERRE DUNOYER, Rouge, 1983. Courtesy Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, Dubai

PIERRE DUNOYER, Jaune, 1981. Courtesy Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, Dubai

I do not feel the right to name a drawing, to give it a conceptual orientation.

PIERRE DUNOYER

PIERRE DUNOYER, Untitled, 1981. Courtesy Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, Dubai

PIERRE DUNOYER, Untitled, 1983. Courtesy Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, Dubai

PIERRE DUNOYER, Untitled, 1979. Courtesy Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, Dubai

PIERRE DUNOYER, Vers le Tableau, 2017 (installation view). Courtesy Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, Dubai. Photo: Alex Wolfe

The Jean-Paul Najar Foundation is included in the Art Guide.

Argentina

MALBA – Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires

An impression of what modernism means in Latin America

Buenos Aires

Colección Amalita

Argentina’s wealthiest woman presents six centuries of art

Buenos Aires

Museo James Turrell

Turrell’s largest Skyspace and light rooms in the Argentine Andes

Colomé

MACBA – Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires

The Argentinian museum with a focus on international geometric art.

Buenos Aires

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Australia

White Rabbit

Judith Neilso’s collection is located in an old factory in Sydney’s industrial district.

Sydney

JAHM – Justin Art House Museum

Given its spacious and unorthodox design, the JAHM looks more like a public exhibition venue than a private residence.

Melbourne

Lyon Housemuseum

A 40-minute tram ride from Melbourne takes you to this unique hybrid space

Melbourne

ARNDT Collection

Tiffany Wood and Matthias Arndt aim to collect works that create disturbance

Athens

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Austria

Museum Liaunig

Nuriel Molcho and Francesca Gavin travel out of Vienna to hillside Carinthia, to meet with Peter Liaunig.

Vienna

o. T. / untitled

As featured in our new film series journey on the BMW Art Guide website, here we go further into the stunning and sustainable Museum Liaunig in Neuhaus, featuring the current main exhibition “o. T.” (untitled).

Neuhaus

Francesca von Habsburg

Arterritory’s Irene Gludowacz talks to art patron and philanthropist Francesca von Habsburg about art as a political weapon.

Vienna

Kunstraum Buchberg

Located on a rock formation high above the Kamp River and surrounded by garden terraces and forests, is where the Kunstraum Buchberg has been since 1979.

Gars am Kamp

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Bahrain

RAK Art Foundation

Bahraini artist and collector Shaikh Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa’s childhood home

Riffa

Artist As Collector – Rashid Al Khalifa

An interview surrounding IC’s exploration, ‘Artist As Collector’ with Bahrain based Rashid Al Khalifa.

Riffa

Bangladesh

Nadia & Rajeeb Samdani

The collector-couple dedicated to South Asian art in the heart of Bangladesh.

Dhaka

Dhaka Art Summit

Interview with the Collectors Nadia and Rajeeb Samdani about their motivation for raising awareness to South Asian art and why pushing the boundaries is important to them as collectors.

Dhaka

Belgium

Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

The industrialist couple Jules and Irma Dhondt-Dhaenens began collecting art in the 1920s

Deurle

Vanhaerents Art Collection

Where the connection between building and collecting is more than metaphorical

Brussels

Galila Barzilaï

Galila’s P.O.C presents itself as a contemporary curiosity cabinet.

Brussels

AMEXICA @The Loft

The Family Servais Collection and The Loft present AMEXICA, an exhibition curated by Marisol Rodríguez

Brussels

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Brazil

Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz

João Carlos de Figueiredo Ferraz’s collection features abstract painting and conceptual art

São Paulo

Fernanda Feitosa & Heitor Martins

A journey into the postwar Brazilian art scene

São Paulo

Bernardo Paz

Interview with the collector behind Instituto Inhotim – Centro de Arte Contemporânea e Jardim Botânico

Brumadinho

João Carlos de Figueiredo Ferraz

Interview with the Brazilian collector on seeking works, regardless of the artist’s age or being known or unknown

São Paulo

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Canada

Audain Art Museum

Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa foster the richness of cultural differences

Whistler

As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic

A look inside this stunning photography book featuring works from Kenneth Montague’s Wedge Collection

Toronto

RENNIE COLLECTION

With a strong focus on topics that surround identity, social commentary, injustice and appropriation, the Rennie Collection is one of Canada’s largest and most important collections.

Vancouver

Position As Desired: Exploring African Canadian Identity

Presenting works from Toronto’s Wedge Collection new exhibition “Position As Desired: Exploring African Canadian Identity | Photographs from the Wedge Collection”.

Toronto

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Chile

AAL – Arte Al Límite Collection

The collection that was founded upon the goal of making a contribution to culture and to encourage creativity.

Santiago

China

Franks-Suss Collection

Initially focused on China, collectors Simon Franks and Robert Suss soon widened their purview

New York

Qiao Zhibing

Catching up with the collector behind TANK Shanghai and Qiao Space

Shanghai

Living Collection

Gary Yeh and Francesca Gavin meet with architect and collector William Lim in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong

RongRong & Inri

Co-founders RongRong and Inri have been supporting contemporary photography by hosting a full program at the Three Shadows.

Beijing

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Cyprus

The Office Collection – A Cloud Passing Over Cairo

Tassos A. Gkekas loves to facilitate his own exhibitions and projects exploring art, fashion and film within the walls of Nicosia.

Nicosia

To Express The Feelings Of A Chair When We Sit On It

An exhibition, curated by Antonis Minas and Christos Kyriakides, is located in Nicosia.

Nicosia

NAPK – THR // NIC Intonations

With its second 2019 exhibition, “NAPK – THR // NIC Intonations”, the Office Collection examines two artistic positions at the artist run space, PARTY Contemporary.

Nicosia

The Office Collection

The Office Collection is the private art collection from Tassos A. Gkekas, the Greek collector with a penchant for collecting works by contemporary international and Greek artists – with many of them based in Europe or the Middle East.

Nicosia

Czech Republic

The Sublime Hyacinth Collection

When Boudewijn Jansen and Yvette van Dishoeck, who are both Dutch, met in 1992 in Prague, it was love—for one another, the city, and Czech art.

Prague

Boris Krsnak

Prague based IC Collector, Boris Krsnak, has a passion for all things Slovak.

Prague

Ovidiu Șandor

Confident elaborate uncertainty

Prague

HAVRLANT ART COLLECTION

Interview with Kateřina Havrlant

Prague

Denmark

Claus Busch Risvig

Meet the young collector who is taking the international art world by storm whilst never forgetting his roots in Denmark.

Silkeborg

Emerging Iranian Artists

Claus Busch Risvig presents in focus on IC, a selection of works by emerging Iranian positions from his collection.

Silkeborg

Barbara Maj Husted Werner

An interview with the collector combining art with the everyday life.

Copenhagen

Sara Theresa Birn Lysgaard

Life and art cannot be separated when it comes to Sara Theresa Birn Lysgaard’s art collection.

Gentofte

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Estonia

Artemy Troitsky

Sergej Timofejev from Arterritory in conversation with Artemy Troitsky, the relaxed collector and Russian music critic.

Tallinn

Finland

Didrichsen Art Museum

In 1965, Marie-Louise and Gunnar Didrichsen created a space that would bring the art they loved to future generations of Finns

Helsinki

France

NEWM ART COLLECTION

»We collect art that resonates with our experiences and challenges us in unexpected ways.«

Paris

Collection Lambert

The legendary French gallerist and collector, Yvon Lambert, is famed for his relentlessly forward-looking approach to visual art as well as uncanny acumen for understanding how art works and spaces interact with each other.

Avignon

Peyrassol – Parc de sculptures

For the Franco-Belgian couple, Philippe Austruy and Valérie Bach, wine, food, and hospitality are equally as important as contemporary art

Flassans-sur-Issole

Venet Foundation

Sculpture park in Bernar Venet’s native Provence

Le Muy

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Germany

You are the Concept

Private sessions with IC founder and strategist Christian Kaspar Schwarm.

Berlin

Sammlung Gräfling

The young couple merges private and public spaces by displaying their collection at their home in a prestigious historic apartment.

Frankfurt

Mario & Julia von Kelterborn

The von Kelterborn Collection isn’t for the faint of heart—although that’s not to say the works are visually jarring.

Frankfurt

Julia Stoschek

Sergej Timofejev in conversation with Julia Stoschek: one of the most active and famous collectors of time-based art.

Berlin

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Ghana

Terra Collection of African Contemporary Art

Interview with Joseph Awuah-Darko

Accra

Greece

Debunking the myths

IC Director Nina Raftopoulo helps new collectors develop confidence.

Athens

Neon

Founded by collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Neon breaks with the conventional model of an art foundation.

Athens

Dakis Joannou

Art Territory’s Una Meistere meets Greek collector Dakis Joannou in his office in Athens.

Athens

ARNDT Collection

Tiffany Wood and Matthias Arndt aim to collect works that create disturbance

Athens

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Hungary

Katalin Spengler & Zsolt Somlói

The Hungarian couple dedicated to opening up the local collector community to international contemporary art.

Budapest

László Vass

Vass Collection: Constructive/Concrete

Veszprém

Iceland

Mixed Media

Marking the latest, and sadly final, exhibition at the Safn Berlin art space in a presentation of two artists who have close ties with the collection.

Reykjavík

Safn

From a very early age, Pétur Arason enjoyed visiting artists in their studios with his father. Today, Arason has built up his own collection spanning more than 1 200 works.

Berlin

India

Shalini Passi

Inside the palatial New Delhi home of artist and collector Shalini Passi.

New Delhi

KNMA – Kiran Nadar Museum of Art

More than 8,000 artworks from across South Asia and its diaspora

New Delhi

Wrapped Up In India

We are excited to present on IC, the very first public showing of Saloni Doshi’s diverse collection located in India!

Mumbai

Ricky Dhingra

Mystic Creations

Delhi

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Iran

Pejman Collection

When collector and film producer Hamidreza Pejman came across the abandoned Argo Factory he saw its meaningful potential.

Tehran

Israel

Givon Art Forum

Only when artworks circulate can they generate ideas

Tel Aviv

The Colors of Pleasure

With over 1 600 artworks, the Igal Ahouvi Art Collections is one of the largest private collections in Israel.

Tel Aviv

Prima Facie

FaceTime! Israel’s largest private art collection, the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, has opened a new show, “Prima Facie”, in its series of exhibitions held at the Tel Aviv University Art Gallery.

Tel Aviv

Italy

Palazzo Daniele

Minimalism meets majesty at Palazzo Daniele where monastic décor exaggerates the grandeur of ceiling frescoes and standalone art works

Naples

Fondazione Brodbeck

Contemporary art in the shadow of a volcano

Catania

Collezione De Iorio

Beauty & infirmity – Radiologist Mauro De Iorio has a unique understanding of the human body

Trento

Collezione Taurisano

Initiated by Paolo Taurisano in the 1970s, this collection now flourishes thanks to his son Francesco and daughter-in-law Sveva D’Antonio

Naples

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Japan

Art Expedition Japan

Join us on an our annual art expedition to the islands of Naoshima, Teshima, and Inujima, which have undergone a remarkable transformation to world-renowned art destinations.

Tokyo

Daisuke Miyatsu

In the Japanese city of Ichikawa you will find a very special house, a dream house in fact.

Ichikawa

Ryutaro Takahashi

Una Meistere talks to Tokyo based collector Ryutaro Takahashi about contemporary art in Japan, art as therapy and the irrationalities of collecting.

Tokyo

Latvia

Zuzāns Collection

Zuzeum Art Centre houses the largest private collection of Latvian art in the world

Riga

Luxembourg

Majerus Collection

Patrick Majerus’ love for collecting all began when he was a child and had a fasciation for collecting stamps and “bandes dessinées”.

Luxembourg City

Metaverse

David Gryn

Interview with the founder and director of DAATA

Online

Mexico

José Mauricio Sanchez Ruiz Collection

Inside the collection built on purchases made on the internet.

Queretaro

Transposing Narratives

With its dual focus on art and design, the Colección Contemporánea is the latest addition to the private museum community in Mexico City.

Mexico City

Netherlands

Museum Voorlinden

Joop van Caldenborgh acquired his first artwork as a teenager.

The Hague

Julian Oggel

Kate Andrews visits Concordia Collection in Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Eric van ’t Hoff

Meet the Dutch art enthusiast who has dedicated his collection to supporting artists.

Nigtevecht

Radical Collecting Part II

A view insight the collection of Frans Oomen.

Amsterdam

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New Zealand

Gibbs Farm

Alan Gibbs has created a sculpture park unlike anything you’ve seen before.

North Auckland

Brick Bay Sculpture Trail

Richard and Christine Didsbury showcase New Zealand’s leading artists

Snells Beach

Gibbs Farm 2017

Art installations on a grand scale resulting in a sculpture park unlike any other you’ve seen before.

North Auckland

Norway

Kaviarfactory

DJ Cassy and Francesca Gavin meet with collectors Venke and Rolf A. Hoff in Henningsvær, Norway.

Henningsvær

Astrup Fearnley Collection

Raising questions about aesthetics, politics, and faith, this Norwegian collection features art by the likes of Richard Prince, and Cindy Sherman.

Oslo

Kistefos Museum

Built on the grounds of a historical pulp mill, Kistefos today offers world-class architecture and art

Jevnaker

Venke Hoff

For Venke Hoff and her husband Rolf, collecting art is an inseparable part of life.

Oslo

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Poland

Borowik Collection

Michał Borowik explains the idea behind his collection and how it came to be

Warsaw

Piotr Bazylko And Polish Collecting

Co-author of Polish book “Contemporary Art Collector’s Guidebook”, Piotr Bazylko and his collection offers an almost complete picture of Polish contemporary art.

Warsaw

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.

Warsaw

Portugal

Thru the Mirror

Collection de Bruin-Heijn presents the exhibition "Thru the Mirror" at Quetzal Art Center

Vidigueira

Read/ing at Quetzal Art Center

See inside the exhibition “Read/ing” at the Quetzal Art Center, amongst the estate, vineyard and restaurant in the heart of the Alentejo region.

Vidigueira

Quetzal / Drawing Africa On The Map

Take a look inside the 2018 exhibition at the Quetzal Art Centre, a family affair situated at a winery in Portugal.

Vidigueira

Near Fields

Seeing art as "a visionary, global language", Portuguese brothers Manuel and Miguel Leal Rios have devoted themselves to building their collection.

Lisbon

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Qatar

MATHAF – Arab Museum of Modern Art

A Royal Collection Spanning 200 Years of Arab Art

Doha

Romania

The Ovidiu Șandor Collection

Establishing roots & creating links

Timișoara

The Ovidiu Șandor Collection 2018

The Romanian collection that started with an antique map.

Timișoara

Saudi Arabia

What Lies Within

The Basma AlSulaiman Collection features an exhibition by some of the most significant artists of Saudi Arabia

Alula

Scotland

JUPITER RISING

Scotland’s artist-led outdoor festival for art, music and performance

Edinburgh

Nicky & Robert Wilson

A Place for Synergy Between Art and Nature – Daiga Rudzāte and Una Meistere interview British art collectors Nicky and Robert Wilson about the mutual interaction between the land and the art.

Edinburgh

Serbia

Trajković Collection

Daniel and Slavic Trajković, discuss the origins of their collection

Belgrade

Postmodernism And Art Of The Eighties In Serbia

Belgrade’s Trajkovic Collection returns for Part III of it’s exploration “Phenomena, Formations And Ideologies Of Serbian Art In The Second Half Of The 20th Century”.

Belgrade

Phenomena, Formations and Ideologies of Serbian Art

A term once suggested, and later on much quoted, for describing the Serbian art of the 1990s, was “art in a closed society”.

Belgrade

New Art of the Seventies in Serbia

Typology of radical emancipated language and practices.

Belgrade

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South Africa

Zeitz MOCAA

Former Puma CEO Jochen Zeitz has built a unique and extensive body of works by some of the most exciting established and emerging artists from Africa and its diaspora

Cape Town

Jochen Zeitz

Interview with the founder of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

Cape Town

South Korea

Gary Yeh

IC talks to Gary Yeh.

Seoul

KOO HOUSE MUSEUM

Exhibition venue with the theme ‚Living with Art‘

Seoul

Museum Hanmi

Interview with Collector Song Young-Sook

Seoul

JaeMyung Noh

Interview with the Korean collector who has been collecting art since high school

Seoul

Spain

Fundació Vila Casas

A former wool factory turned art space by Antoni Vila Casas

Barcelona

Yannick & Ben Jakober

The two artists have been collecting for more than 50 years

Alcúdia, Mallorca

PRIOR Art Space

Oliver Elst and Laura del Arco have built significant collections, both individually and together

Barcelona

SUBSTANCES

An exhibition by the Adrastus Collection in the historic church of San Martín in Arévalo

Arévalo

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Sweden

Peter Linde Busk & Numen/For Use

The Wanås Foundation features sculptures to enter and spatial design to be surrounded by

Knislinge

Wanås Foundation II

In southern Sweden lies a private collection buried deep in a castle's grounds, sheds and barns.

Knislinge

Karin Meidner & Jan Widlund

For more than 30 years Jan Widlund was the owner of a large art collection at the law firm of Vinge in Stockholm.

Stockholm

Siw & Christer Ragnar

The afternoon sun filters into the large apartment of Siw and Christer Ragnar in Stockholm’s fashionable Tegnérlunden.

Stockholm

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Switzerland

Kunst(Zeug)Haus

An extensive private collection of Swiss contemporary art of the last fifty years

Rapperswil-Jona

Muzeum Susch

A 12th-century monastery and brewery in the Engadin Valley of the Swiss Alps

Susch

Georgia O’Keeffe

The Fondation Beyeler has devoted the first exhibition of its anniversary year to this extra-ordinary woman

Basel

If I Was a Rich Girl

Welcome to the fantasy collection - an exhibition developed by artist Clare Kenny together with borrowed works from renowned collections as her dream realisation.

Riehen

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Turkey

The Agah Uğur Collection

One of the largest video art collections in Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul

Don’t Look Back, Deep is the Past

An exhibition at the Odunpazarı Modern Museum focusing on the the ways in which we define the Other

Eskişehir

The Elgiz Museum II

Since the early 1980s, Sevda and Can Elgiz have been aware of the worth of collecting contemporary art, long before it had fully entered the spotlight of Turkeys art scene.

Istanbul

Collecting the Elusive

In a small project space near Istanbul’s Taksim Square, Özge Ersoy and Haro Cumbusyan investigate into the complex world of collecting by bringing private art collections to the public view.

Istanbul

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UK

Roberts Institute of Art

A living organism to underpin research and debate

London

Mark Hicks Collection

The collection grown from a curiosity of editions from the streets.

London

Known Unknowns

A peek inside the exhibition that looks at the status of an artist in the mainstream art world.

London

Irmina Nazar & Artur Trawinski

The Polish collectors raising awareness on Eastern European Art.

London

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Barjeel Art Foundation

The diversity of the Arab world lies at the heart of Sultan Al-Qassemi’s collection

Sharjah

Jean-Paul Najar Foundation

Situated on, and presented in partnership with Alserkal Avenue, the heart of Dubai’s art quarter, the JPNF opened its gates to the public in 2016.

Dubai

The Farjam Foundation

Farhad Farjam’s collection encompasses Islamic, Middle Eastern and Western art

Dubai

Vers le tableau

Exhibition from the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, featuring major works from French artist Pierre Dunoyer.

Dubai

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USA

West Collection

Since 1996, Al & Paige West have been building an impressive collection, including works by artists such as Donald Judd, Martin Boyce, and Candice Breitz.

Oaks

Valeria Napoleone

The Italian-born collector actively seeks out underrepresented positions and therefore only acquires works by women artists.

New York

Christine and Andrew Hall

Interview with the collectors behind Hall Art Foundation

Reading

Gary Yeh

IC talks to Gary Yeh.

Seoul

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