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Is it possible to conceptualize a space that bridges contemporary and historical contexts? That is the main question to be addressed during the symposium ‘Patronage of Space’ that will be organized by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in the Croatian city of Dubrovnik on June 20. This symposium on the prospects of an international program of art pavilions to be built in various locations all over the world will coincide with the opening of a temporary Art Pavilion, a collaborative project between David Adjaye and Olafur Eliasson. The pavilion houses an installation by Olafur Eliasson and will also host a series of actions to maintain and renovate some of the island’s important historic heritage. Moreover, it provides the island of Lopud near Dubrovnik with a unique space for art.

The pavilion was first shown at the 2007 Venice Biennale and breaks with conventional museum structures by presenting works of art in a small-scale building instead of monolithic environments. This idea of an Art Pavilion was inspired by the single-space simplicity of the Rothko Chapel in Houston and the more sprawling Louisiana Museum in Denmark. Based on these precedessors a constellation of stand-alone Art Pavilions, dispersed across the world, was conceived by Francesca von Habsburg, chairman of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and the museum in Madrid that goes by the same name. The challenge was to make a portable and temporary museum, which sits comfortably in its surrounding natural site, whilst also impacting the region with the “Bilbao effect”.

In the future Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary will place a limited number of Pavilions in selected locations around the world, including Iceland. The Pavilions will share similar scale and design characteristics and will be used for one-man-shows or collaborative exhibitions. In addition to the Art Pavilions the organization will also realize so-called Show Depots, which are more permanent structures that create regional hubs for the more remote satellite pavilions.

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Symposium“Patronage of Space”
Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 20th 2007

Speakers include:
- Francesca von Habsburg, Chairman, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
- David Adjaye, Architect, Adjaye/Associates
- Olafur Eliasson, Artist
- Matthew Ritchie, Artist
- Rem Koolhaas, Architect, OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture
- Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director for Exhibitions, Serpentine Gallery

For more information:
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Show Depot Hubs & Satellites

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