A brand new modern artwork museum is slated to open subsequent yr in Slovenia within the foothills of the Julian Alps. Named after its founders, Slovenian philanthropists Igor and Mojca Lah, Muzej Lah will home the Fundacija Lah artwork assortment.
On its web site, the Swiss-based nonprofit basis says it “helps and promotes native and worldwide initiatives throughout the cultural spectrum, together with visible artwork, theatre, movie, dance and music.”
The gathering of round 800 works has been constructed by the couple during the last 30 years. It contains items by greater than 100 worldwide and Slovenian artists together with Joseph Beuys, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Anselm Kiefer, William Kentridge, Zoran Mušič, and Neue Slowenische Kunst. It additionally options works by modern artists Anne Imhof, Theaster Gates, and Hito Steyerl. Most of the works have by no means been considered by the general public earlier than.
David Chipperfield Architects, based by Pritzker Prize-winning British architect Sir David Chipperfield, have designed the 55,000-square-foot museum within the medieval city of Bled. It can occupy a spot embedded in a hillside beneath Bled Citadel, inbuilt 1278, not removed from Lake Bled.
“In constructing the Fundacija Lah artwork assortment over three many years, we additionally dreamt that someday we’d have the ability to create an area the place these artworks might be shared and found,” Igor and Mojca Lah stated in a press release. “We needed to create an establishment in Slovenia the place guests from close to and much might come collectively to suppose and be impressed, a spot for the area people and worldwide guests that celebrates artwork and brings collectively a number of the best artists of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. It has been a labour of affection to see our dream come to life in Bled, a house and deeply reflective place for us.”
In a press release, Sir Chipperfield stated the museum is “outlined by a sequence of rooms, courtyards, and terraces that each create a super setting for the gathering and provides the customer a powerful sense of the encircling panorama.”
Igor Lah, Fundacija Lah’s founder and chairman, can be the president of Vaider Group in Switzerland, the proprietor of Steklarna Hrastnik, a Slovenian glass producer specialising in premium glassware, and the proprietor of Srpska fabrika stakla, a glass producer in Serbia. His spouse Mojca, the muse’s co-founder, is treasurer of the Vaider Group, a glass packaging firm in Switzerland.
