Het Kiasma museum voor moderne kunst in Helsinki is een van de eerste musea waar ik een vrij uitgebreide fotoserie van heb gemaakt, voordat MuseuMe was bedacht. Vooral van binnen is het een heel mooi gebouw met al die mooie lange gangen en rondingen van beton. Doet mij vooral denken aan de Villa Savoye van le Corbusier. Ook de collectie is de moeite waard met vele internationale kunstenaars, oa Donald Judd, Frank Stella, Joel Shapiro en uiteraard veel kunst uit Scandinavie.
(Historisch en cultureel gezien bestaat Scandinavië uit de lidstaten van de Noordse Raad: Denemarken, Finland, IJsland, Noorwegen en Zweden).
The contemporary art collection began as the Museum of Contemporary Art (Finnish: Nykytaiteen museo) in 1990. In its earliest stages, the collection was housed in Ateneum.
An architectural design competition to design a building for the contemporary arts museum was held in 1992. The competition was open to architects from the Nordic and Baltic countries, in addition to which four architects or studios from elsewhere were invited to participate, though they were obliged to submit their proposals anonymously: Steven Holl from the USA, Alvaro Siza from Portugal, Coop Himmelblau from Austria, and Kazuo Shinohara from Japan.[1] The competition results were announced in 1993, and the winning proposal, titled Chiasma by Steven Holl, was selected from the 516 submitted entries. The design of the building, Finnishized as “Kiasma”, underwent slight modification during the design process, but nevertheless was regarded as controversial; for instance its close proximity to the equestrian statue of Finnish President Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.[2] Construction work began in 1996, and the museum opened in May 1998.[3] (Bron: Wikipedia)
