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How does a museum visit differ from visiting a private collection? After all, art can be found in both places. Whereas museums devote space to art with historical significance, private collections showcase the individual, subjective tastes of the collector. However, you don’t necessarily need to embrace the collector’s point of view. It’s really more a matter of seeing things in a fresh light—like trying on a new pair of glasses. This shift in perspective often leads to unexpected revelations. Although this guide will at times point you toward art you are already familiar with, once perceived in the context of a private collection, it can seem re-energized, invigorated. Each collection is unique and its variety reflects the collector’s individual history and passions, often supplemented with personal anecdotes. We are asked to question our familiar assumptions and thus to remain constantly flexible. Once again the expanded search for contemporary art in hidden places is also what drives the fourth edition of the BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors. In this edition, we’ve added four new countries: Lebanon, Romania, Serbia, and South Korea. From cosmopolitan Hong Kong to Appenzell in Switzerland—from pulsating urban centers to tranquil provinces—the entire range is represented. It is our aim to provide you many hours of enjoyment and inspiration with this publication. We would like to extend our gratitude to the 256 collections for their active support of a project whose purpose is for art to be experienced in unique environments. Continually updated information on new discoveries and interviews, as well as background information on art and collecting, can be found on our blog at www.bmw-art-guide.com.

During Art Basel we met with some of the key members of the international art world to discuss our publication on camera. Have a look at what Hans Ulrich Obrist, Georgina Adam, Judy Lybke and others have to say about the BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors.

Argentina

Buenos Aires Argentina

Argentina’s wealthiest woman presents six centuries of art-treasure collecting

The Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat lies in the middle of Puerto Madero, the trendy quarter of the Argentine capital. Until the end of the 1990s, this neighborhood was still a no-go area of rundown houses ringing the harbor. It’s been heavily restored and added to over the past few years by world-class architects like Sir Norman Foster, Philippe Starck, and Santiago Calatrava. The architect of the Colección Fortabat, which opened in fall 2008, is the Uruguay-born New Yorker Rafael Viñoly. He built a modern, light-filled house for the art collection of Argentina’s wealthiest woman: 1 000 works ranging from Pieter Bruegel to Andy Warhol, who made a portrait of her in 1980. The socially critical artist Antonio Berni has a gallery all to himself.

Buenos Aires Argentina

MAMBA, MALBA, MACBA. Anyone flaneuring through Buenos Aires on a museum tour could get them mixed up. While the first two have been around for a long time, the MACBA arrived on the scene in 2012. The Museum Art Center Buenos Aires was founded by native Aldo Rubino, who now lives in Miami and is a frequent guest on the collectors’ panel at Art Basel Miami Beach. Rubino’s private collection concentrates on geometric abstraction: Op Art, Hard Edge, and Neo-Geo, from Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Victor Vasarely, all the way to the American Sarah Morris. Special exhibitions feature all varieties of current art. Shows take place in the 2 400-square-meter translucent building brought to life by local architect duo Vila Sebastián. The location is great: the MACBA, which sits adjacent to the MAMBA, is in the lively flea-market quarter of San Telmo.

Buenos Aires Argentina

Unsuspecting “gringos” come across places in South America that they couldn’t have imagined in their wildest dreams. The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) is one such place. The museum of art features work from the Caribbean to Tierra del Fuego and is located in the posh district of Palermo Chico. It looks like an outpost of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Here, too, people know how to erect elegant structures; here modernism is self-consciously defined—naturally, from a Latin-American perspective. Nearly 300 key works from businessman Eduardo F. Costantini’s collection are on permanent display: politically charged Conceptual Art by Léon Ferrari; the Chilean surrealist Roberto Matta is also well represented, as is the Brazilian Lygia Clark, whose fragile metal objects have leapt to premium prices internationally.

There is no shortage of museums, galleries, and other exciting art venues in Buenos Aires, the bustling metropolis on the Río de la Plata. Too bad, then, that they are spread across so many different quarters, with melodious names like Recoleta, Retiro, Palermo, and Belgrano. Carefully planning your art sojourn, therefore, is crucial. The comparatively cheap black-and-yellow taxis and their friendly drivers will do the rest. Aside from the private museums presented in this guide, one should definitely visit the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA), with its extensive collections of European and predominantly Argentine art through the twenty-first century. More closely affiliated with international art discourse is the private Fundación Proa, located in the colorful harbor district of La Boca. Whether Jeremy Deller, Mona Hatoum, or the young Argentine rising star Eduardo Basualdo—all have had a big show in this gleaming white building. Casa Cavia, housed in a newly renovated 1920s-era villa in Palermo Chico, directly behind the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), features an unconventional mix of restaurant, bookstore, perfume lab, and florist. Located in the districts of Retiro and Recoleta, the galleries Ruth Benzacar and Jorge Mara-La Ruche, both regular exhibitors at Art Basel Miami Beach, offer primarily Argentine avant garde at the highest level. Whoever wishes to discover both the younger Argentine and international scene is in good hands at Miau Miau, in Palermo. Each year, in late May, in the middle of Argentina’s fall season, the fair ArteBA takes place. Also located in Palermo, the fair initially specialized in Latin American art but has become increasingly international. In October, friends of photography will discover fine works at the fair Buenos Aires Photo. It’s located in the communal Centro Cultural Recoleta, which exhibits the work of international greats like August Sander or Roger Ballen, in addition to Argentine artists. There are also off-spaces, but here they have a rather nomadic character. It’s best to pay attention to local flyers to discover what’s going on.

Nicole Büsing & Heiko Klaas

Salta Argentina

Turrell’s largest Skyspace and additional light rooms in breathtaking surroundings

Far away from all the art metropolises, in a majestic location beneath the bright blue sky of the Argentine Andes, lies the world’s first James Turrell Museum, opened in 2009. Here the light-and-land artist from Arizona completed the biggest Skyspace at his collector and friend Donald M. Hess’s vineyard, Colomé: 2 300 meters up a mountainside sits a Turrell observatory with an open roof, joined by an orchestration of subtle light. Eight more light rooms, works acquired by Hess over the past forty years, are grouped around the spectacular centerpiece. Here you experience pure meditative inwardness. The Museo James Turrell, which Hess maintains along with his collections in South Africa and North America, is a truly magical space in a fascinating location.

Australia

Hobart Australia

Small gestures are not his thing: Australian millionaire David Walsh owns one of the largest museums in the southern hemisphere. This building without daylight is burrowed deep into the Tasmanian bedrock. Aside from contemporary art, the museum also houses Egyptian mummies and Greek coins. Walsh, who made his fortune developing complex winning-systems for gambling, combines antique treasures with Australian contemporary art, as well as works by internationally renowned artists like Jannis Kounellis, Hans Bellmer, Anselm Kiefer, the Viennese group Gelitin, or Wim Delvoye’s excrement machine, Cloaca. Walsh prefers works that confront viewers immediately with subjects like sex and death. He views his Museum of Old and New Art, opened in 2011, as a kind of secular temple in which visitors are made keenly aware of humanity’s existential conditions.

Melbourne Australia

By appointment only. To arrange an appointment, send an e-mail, or call on Mondays or Tuesdays between 9:30–11:30am.

If you want to visit Corbett and Yueji Lyon, you first have to make an appointment. For good reason: the architect built a house for his family that also functions as a museum. In the cavernous rooms the artworks are re-hung biannually. Lyon draws on a long tradition, such as Peggy Guggenheim’s Venetian home, where her private collection was shown. The Australian pair has specialized in the artists of their own country, collecting paintings from the likes of Tim Maguire, sculptures by Peter Hennessey, or large C-print photographs by Anne Zahalka. Two decades ago the Lyons decided to collect the work of a new generation, such as that by Peter Atkins, Callum Morton, and Patricia Piccinini, who have since become established internationally. The couple has remained true to their pioneering spirit.

Melbourne Australia

Most art collections don’t open their doors with a pre-determined closing date, but Ten Cubed is one that did. Established in 2010, the original idea was to collect ten works by ten artists over ten years, hence the name. Once enough works by a single artist—from painting to photography, to sculpture and video art—had been purchased, they would be given a solo show in the airy, custom-built gallery space in Glen Iris. The original focus was on Australian and New Zealand artists, from sculptors Alexander Knox and Anne-Marie May to photographers such as David Rosetzky and Pat Brassington. Aesthetic appeal and collectability were the main criteria. Surprised by the success of their experiment—within five years ten artists had already been selected—collector Dianne Gringlas and her curatorial advisor Ada Moshinsky, who is also her sister-in-law, announced Ten Cubed 2, which will now include international artists for the project.

Sydney Australia

Judith and Kerr Neilson have chosen to limit themselves: they only collect Chinese art, and only works created after the year 2000. When Judith Neilson traveled to Beijing in 2001 she realized that her understanding of Chinese art was based on an outdated cliché. When she returned, she restructured their existing collection and, together with her husband, she bought an old factory in Sydney’s industrial district. There she began to systematically acquire contemporary work by artists like Ai Weiwei, Huang Zhen, Qi Zhilong, or Huang Yan. The age of the artist did not matter, rather Neilsen was after “creativity and quality.” Instead of buying at art auctions, the couple buys directly in China from gallerists and artists’ studios. Featuring only a handful of Chinese works in 2000, it is now considered one of the world’s most important and focused collections.

Sydney has long battled it out with Melbourne for top billing on the Australian cultural calendar. But, while the latter boasts an equally if not more active gallery and museum scene, Sydney’s harborside arts festival, the Biennale of Sydney, places it a cut above, particularly on the international art world stage. Having attracted top-notch curators for its past editions—Documenta 13 artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Fondazione Prada director Germano Celant, and others—the 20th Biennale of Sydney in spring 2016 was helmed by Stephanie Rosenthal, chief curator of London-based Hayward Gallery, and focused on the boundaries between our virtual and physical lives. For those headed Down Under during biennale off-months, there’s still plenty left to see. The Art Gallery of New South Wales (Art Gallery NSW) leads off Sydney’s museum scene. The institution’s John Kaldor Family Collection is of particular note here for its breadth of American and European postwar and contemporary masters. The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA)’s waterfront building, which previously housed the Maritime Services Board, was renovated in 2012 to offer increased exhibition space and a more modern vibe. More experimental is Artspace, a contemporary art venue in the city’s Woolloomooloo district, which was founded by artists in 1983 and moved to its current venue, a historic building known as The Gunnery, in 1992. The much younger Carriageworks opened in 2007 in the disused Eveleigh Rail Yards, and hosts a multi-disciplinary program of contemporary art, theater, and performance—as well as the city’s biggest art fair, Sydney Contemporary, which is held every two years in September. Australia’s relative isolation from the art market power-centers of Europe, America, and Asia translates into fewer commercial galleries than some cities of similar global standing, but a trip here wouldn’t be complete without a stop at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, which has helped launch the careers of Tracey Moffatt and Fiona Hall, among others.

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Austria

Gars am Kamp Austria

Gertraud and Dieter Bogner are museum experts. The couple runs an international agency for museum planning, cultural and strategic museum concepts, and exhibition management in Vienna. Some of their prestige projects in recent years include the New Museum in New York City or the new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau. Of course, with this type of background, the Bogners also have a strong interest in living with art. This is done at a location far away from Vienna at Buchberg, their twelfth-century castle located in lower Austria, where since 1979 they have invited artists to modify its rooms. Thus far there have been twenty-two permanent room alterations: color interventions, wall works, and sculptures. And in the green surrounds of the castle, stars like Dan Graham or Heimo Zobernig have executed distinctive works relating to the architecture.

Lebring Austria

A palace, a garden, and an enthusiastic couple. Christine and Bertrand Conrad-Eybesfeld do not buy their art off the rack. It originates on site, sometimes in a few weeks, sometimes over a period of years. The owners of a cultural management agency do not consider themselves collectors or patrons, but rather artists’ partners for these outdoor projects. Indeed, the couple has enough space: the palace is located in the sparsely populated state of Styria, in southeastern Austria. It all started with the artist Heimo Zobernig, who in 1989 made his mark on the palace’s former tennis court with a fifteen-centimeter-thick concrete plate. Sol Le Witt executed a large-scale work shortly before his death, in 2007. For the Conrad-Eybesfelds, at least as important as the end result is getting people involved in the whole process, including the local community.

Neuhaus Austria

With its slim, slightly rounded form, the Museum Liaunig resembles a gigantic USB-stick plugged into green hills. Carinthian businessman Herbert W. Liaunig opened this radically modern-looking museum far away from the urban hustle and bustle in the summer of 2008, and had it greatly expanded in 2014. The building was masterminded by the Viennese architects Querkraft, who lean toward understatement: 90 percent of the rooms are located underground. Liaunig collected “what resulted from personal encounters and predilections.” The more than 3 000 works include key pieces of Austrian postwar art by figures like Arnulf Rainer or Maria Lassnig, but also undiscovered or overlooked works, as well as young positions. Since the museum was founded, Liaunig has collected with more focus and closed some previous gaps, such as his acquisition of several Viennese Actionists. His goal is to bring Austrian art since 1945 alive for the visitor.

Thalheim bei Wels Austria

The Upper Austrian entrepreneur Heinz J. Angerlehner describes himself as “a collector with heart and soul.” Over athirty-year period he acquired more than 2 500 works of art. They have either attracted him emotionally or spontaneously—without regard for any art-historical classification, but with a high regard for quality. This is how his collection grew over the years to include many famous names from his homeland, such as Arnulf Rainer, Gunter Damisch, Hubert Schmalix, or Andreas Leikauf. In September 2013 the Museum Angerlehner opened in Thalheim, near Wels. It is housed in a former assembly hall covered with iridescent black metal panels, which in addition to showing the collection also hosts temporary exhibitions in its roughly 2 000-square-meter space. An added highlight is the fiftymeter-long display storeroom with retractable walls.

Vienna Austria

Since 2012, the Augarten in Vienna has hosted a think tank for art projects situated at the interface of art, architecture, and sustainability. The private foundation Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) develops exhibitions here in dialogue with its own collection. Especially appealing in summer: the open-air stage designed by British architect David Adjaye, which serves as a platform for lectures, performances, and concerts. But that’s not all they do: the mission of the globally active foundation is to work closely with international artists, from Vienna to Reykjavík to New Delhi. Chairwoman Francesca von Habsburg, daughter of the super-collector Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, grew up with art, and has become one of the most experimental-friendly and socially engaged patrons of contemporary art since the foundation was established in 2002.

No other city in the German-speaking world presides over such a dense network of museums and galleries like Vienna, the Austrian metropolis of 1.8 million inhabitants. The best place to begin a tour is MuseumsQuartier Wien (MQ), where you’ll find three institutions of international standing: the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MuMoK), founded in 1962, featuring the largest collection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art in central Europe, the Kunsthalle Wien, focusing on contemporary discourse, and the Leopold Museum, boasting the largest Egon Schiele collection in the world. Other highlights on the Vienna tour include the Belvedere, with Austrian art from 1900 onwards, and its annex for contemporary art, the 21er Haus. Art Nouveau enthusiasts should not miss the Vienna Secession. Every October, Viennafair, an art fair for international contemporary art, draws visitors to the trade fair center’s Hall A, designed by renowned Viennese architect Gustav Peichl. This is also the perfect opportunity to get to know the local gallery scene of experienced protagonists who have set the tone with committed international and avant-garde programs. In the city’s first municipal district, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder has shown abstract and Conceptual Art at her gallery Galerie nächst St. Stephan, on Grünangergasse, since 1984. Located just a stone’s throw away are the exhibition spaces of Ursula Krinzinger, the grande dame of Vienna's galleries. Since 1971 Krinzinger has been synonymous with performance and body art, as well as the Viennese Actionism of Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. Further to the southwest, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, on Schleifmühlgasse, has made a name for itself since the late 1990s with artists like Gerwald Rockenschaub, Clegg & Guttmann, or Mark Dion. Next door you’ll find the galleries of Christine König and Kerstin Engholm, also well worth a visit. As the day draws to a close, the Viennese art scene enjoys meeting up for schnitzel, goulash, and Czech beer at the legendary Viennese Beisl Café Anzengruber. Wohl bekomms! Cheers!

Nicole Büsing & Heiko Klaas

Bangladesh

Dhaka Bangladesh

Globalization has put previously ignored countries on the art map—Bangladesh, for example. Bangladeshi industrialist Rajeeb Samdani and his wife, Nadia, are well aware of this, so their aim is to acquaint an international audience with art from their country. In April 2011 they opened a foundation to promote local art via exhibitions, film screenings, and events like the Dhaka Art Summit. Their collection, spread over three floors of their private home, includes local artists such as Shumon Ahmed, Tayeba Begum Lipi, and Mahbubur Rahman, alongside international artists such as Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tony Oursler, Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor, Philippe Parreno, and Prabhavathi Meppayil. Samdani, who is also a founding member of the South Asian Acquisitions Committee of the London Tate, has an additional project: a sprawling sculpture park in the country’s northeast.

Belgium

Brussels Belgium

Reduced aesthetics and humble materials in three locations in the center of Brussels

He had always purchased art, but it wasn’t until 2009 that Frenchman Frédéric de Goldschmidt began thinking of himself as a collector. That’s when he first acquired works that vastly exceeded the dimensions of his loft apartment, located in a seventeenth-century building in central Brussels. Today he owns two additional showrooms measuring seventy and 160 square meters, respectively. His collection revolves conceptually around the group Zero and their associates, with works by Günther Uecker, Heinz Mack, or Piero Manzoni. In the meantime, de Goldschmidt, who works as a film producer, has begun collecting mostly younger artists, such as the Berliner Stef Heidhues, or Joël Andrianomearisoa, from Madagascar. The collection’s common thread is a reduced aesthetic and great sensitivity to rather humble materials. De Goldschmidt rehangs his collection each year in time for Art Brussels.

Brussels Belgium

It would be hard to be more innovative. The Brussels-based French couple Amaury and Myriam de Solages put together a monothematic exhibition several times a year with collector friends and art experts. Shows on themes of pairs, taboos, or icons, for instance, have been presented at Maison Particulière. The location is as unique as the idea: an uninhabited aristocratic domicile in the lively district of Châtelain. Three stories, dark hardwood floors, high ceilings, lots of light, and chock-full of firstrate furniture by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Arne Jacobsen, and young designers. The whole project has been well-received in Brussels: since its opening, in April 2011, Maison Particulière has turned into an absolute hotspot of the city. Works as varied as those by Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Hans Bellmer can be seen alongside young Belgian artists, African sculptures, and porcelain objects. Eclecticism with style.

Brussels Belgium

The Frenchman Charles Riva is co-owner of galleries in Brussels, Paris, and London. He views his Charles Riva Collection, in Brussels, as a nonprofit space. Here he lives with his collection in a centrally located luxurious nineteenthcentury townhouse. In the spring of 2009, Riva started organizing two to four exhibitions a year featuring works of artists from the collection, including Leipzig painter and printmaker Christoph Ruckhäberle, Californian performance artist and pop-culture antagonist Paul McCarthy, or the fictional New York artist Reena Spaulings. Going to galleries is a serious thing, Riva says, almost on par with attending church. Whoever visits his collection should get a sense of the novel ways in which art unfolds when viewed in private rooms. And located just two kilometers away is Riva Project, a new space specializing exclusively in contemporary sculpture.

Brussels Belgium

Art that poses questions, in a converted factory loft in the north of Brussels

Alain Servais is omnipresent in the art world. He is occasionally part of the expert panel for the collection of new media at Art Basel. At other times he can be seen during Berlin Art Week rushing from gallery to gallery on a rented Vespa. He is also an avid Twitter user. The extremely well-connected Frenchman, who lives in Brussels, is hungry for art. In his opinion, good art should question certainties: “It should teach me something that I don’t know about myself or my environment.” Servais converted an old factory into a 900-square-meter loft in the multicultural district of Schaerbeek. Here he shows his collection, which includes established names such as Gilbert & George and Barbara Kruger as well as younger positions, like video works by Mexican artist Arturo Hernández Alcázar. Once a year he rearranges 80 percent of his collection’s holdings.

“Brussels is booming, when it comes to culture and the arts,” says Katerina Gregos, the artistic director of Art Brussels. April 2016 marked a double premiere: Art Brussels was held in its new location inside the historic halls of Tour & Taxis, and the New York fair Independent installed its European offshoot at the Dexia Art Center, a centrally located, former furniture department store from the 1930s. During such events Brussels really comes alive: open houses hosted by scores of private collectors, gallery nights and parties set the program. For young artists and international collectors, this European capital—with both its charm and rough edges—is the new Mecca: studios, galleries, and institutions congregate here en masse. The Palais des Beaux-Arts (for short: Bozar) lures visitors with exhibitions ranging from Jeff Wall to Daniel Buren. Art-goers interested in current positions such as Edith Dekyndt are in good hands at the Wiels—Centre d’Art Contemporain, in the Forest district. Nine artists’ studios for international newcomers are available for residencies at this art center, which opened in 2007 in an old brewery. If you want to explore the Brussels gallery scene, it’s best to take a tour of the Ixelles district, or the Lower Town, also known as Downtown. Situated here are the spaces of the long-established Galerie Greta Meert and the gallery Dépendance, run by Michael Callies who originally hails from Germany. Walking in the direction of Ixelles you’ll also pass the flagship gallery Jan Mot, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, recently relocated from Antwerp, as well as the New York bluechip gallery Barbara Gladstone. Upon arriving in the elegant Ixelles district, you’ll find Almine Rech, Xavier Hufkens, and Levy. Delval. Anyone wishing to stock up on art books in otherwise comics-enthusiast Belgium should head straight to the mag nificent Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert Passage, near the Grand Place. Here the bookshop Tropismes provides an opportunity for endless hours of browsing.

Nicole Büsing & Heiko Klaas

Brussels Belgium

Walter Vanhaerents’s family has been in the construction business for eighty years, so naturally he went into the business too. But as a young man he studied film. He was so impressed with Andy Warhol’s five-hour-long film Sleep that he wanted to see other works by the Pop icon. No surprise, then, that Warhol, along with Bruce Naumann, is one of the anchors of the Vanhaerents Art Collection. But the reactions of subsequent generations of artists to these seminal figures interests Vanhaerents as well, whose collection also features works ranging from Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, and Ugo Rondinone, to the provocative, neo-Pop Art, business-minded artist Takashi Murakami. The collection is housed in a charmingly remodeled 1926 industrial building on the outskirts of the hip fashion and gallery district of Dansaert. Starting in 2007, new exhibitions have been shown biannually on three floors.

Deurle Belgium

The Flanders industrialist couple Jules and Irma Dhondt-Dhaenens began collecting art in the 1920s. Belgium was just as divided then as it is today, which is why the couple focused almost exclusively on Flemish artists from 1880 to 1950, including James Ensor and Frits Van den Berghe. Later the collector couple decided to have a museum built to house their collection. Not in Brussels or Ghent, but in the countryside at Deurle, a beautifully located village on the river Leie and close to the artist colony Sint-Martens-Latem. The bright white, flatroofed modernistic structure was opened in 1968. Today the museum continues to sharpen its contemporary profile with around eight annual exhibitions devoted to such international artists as Thomas Hirschhorn, Wade Guyton, and Monika Sosnowska.

Ghent Belgium

Opening hours vary depending on exhibition. Please check the website for the most current information.

To utopia and back. The collection of the Ghent-based couple Annick and Anton Herbert focuses on art produced between 1968 and 1989. In a former steam-engine factory near the center of the Flemish city they present in temporary exhibitions works by concept and avant-garde artists such as Bruce Nauman, Marcel Broodthaers, Carl Andre, Robert Barry, and Lawrence Weiner as well as Martin Kippenberger, Franz West, and Thomas Schütte. What connects them all is their critical reflection upon social and artistic issues. What makes the collection so unique is its profound archive of artist books, letters, postcards, posters, invitations, and other documents, which show the friendly ties and decades of intellectual debate between the Herberts and “their” artists.

Herentals Belgium

More than 1 700 works of art, assembled by a single collector. This can only be described as collecting mania, even if Hugo Voeten has been steadily honing his collection over three decades. He is not committed to a particular geographical or medium-specific category, but there are priorities: Bulgarian and Belgian art in general, and sculpture in particular. With 5 000-square-meters of exhibition space in a former 1950s-era grain mill, the Art Center Hugo Voeten near Herentals is suited for extended forays through twentieth- and twenty-first-century art history. Voeten also maintains his own park in Geel showcasing monumental sculptures. In addition to the much-talked-about artist Arno Breker, there are also crowd favorites like Aristide Maillol and Auguste Rodin, as well as contemporaries from Wim Delvoye to Thomas Houseago.

Foreword

Around the World in 256 Collections

Contents

Argentina

Buenos Aires Argentina

Buenos Aires Argentina

Buenos Aires Argentina

Salta Argentina

Australia

Hobart Australia

Melbourne Australia

Melbourne Australia

Sydney Australia

Austria

Gars am Kamp Austria

Lebring Austria

Neuhaus Austria

Thalheim bei Wels Austria

Vienna Austria

Bangladesh

Dhaka Bangladesh

Belgium

Brussels Belgium

Brussels Belgium

Brussels Belgium

Brussels Belgium

Brussels Belgium

Deurle Belgium

Ghent Belgium

Herentals Belgium

Kemzeke Belgium