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1 2 ART ENClAVES Seven

1 2 ART ENClAVES Seven exceptional new and forthcoming private museums worth the journey. By Claire Wrathall 1 HEIDI HORTEN COLLECTION VIENNA When in June 2022 the museum opened in a dramatically modernised palace, its founder issued a statement. In putting her collection on public display, she said, she was “proud to have created something lasting [for] future generations”. Her collection – an impressive assemblage of works that range from Egon Schiele and Marc Chagall to Damien Hirst, expertly curated by Agnes Husslein-Arco, former director of The Belvedere – had “given [her] such joy” that she wanted to share it. Three days later she died. There could be no more fitting memorial. 2 THE LUCAS MUSEUM OF NARRATIVE ART LOS ANGELES Designed to resemble a gigantic spaceship docked in Exposition Park, the Lucas Museum is the creation of George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, and his wife, the financier Mellody Hobson. Expected to open in 2025, it will feature works from their respective art collections. Hers is focused on African-American artists (among them Kara Walker and Carrie Mae Weems), while he collects American work by the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chuck Close, Robert Indiana, Georgia O’Keeffe and Norman Rockwell, along with memorabilia relating to his career. 3 3 THE MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART TASMANIA Having made a fortune through a gambling syndicate, David Walsh founded his museum “to absolve myself”, he wrote in his autobiography, “from feeling guilty about making money without making a mark”. Since its opening in 2011, it’s certainly made its presence felt. Back then, Tasmania received fewer than a million tourists a year. By 2019, that number more than tripled, many drawn by the underground and shamelessly provocative museum, which has hosted exhibitions by the likes of Matthew Barney, Marina Abramović, Gilbert & George and Tomás Saraceno. PHOTOS CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: KUNST-DOKUMENTATION.COM / MANUEL CARREON LOPEZ; KADIR NELSON, ART CONNOISSEURS, 2019, LUCAS MUSEUM OF NARRATIVE ART, LOS ANGELES, © 2019 KADIR NELSON; © MONA 94

5 4 6 PHOTOS CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: JOÃO KEHL, HUFTON+CROW, LAURIAN GHINITOIU 4 INHOTIM MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL A two-hour drive from the city of Belo Horizonte, Inhotim is a 2,000ha estate a fraction of which, perhaps 100 hectares, have been artfully transformed into luxuriant botanical gardens (20,000 types of palm, almost 350 species of orchid), woodland and lakes by Roberto Burle Marx. The fabulous landscape alone would be worth the journey, but the 700 or so installations here by the likes of Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney, Chris Burden, Janet Cardiff, Olafur Eliasson, Marcius Galan, Cildo Meireles and Tunga especially merit the trip. 5 ZEITZ MOCAA CAPE TOWN Named after the German collector Jochen Zeitz, CEO and chairman of Harley- Davidson, whose collection of African art it houses, Zeitz MOCAA opened on Cape Town’s Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in 2017, in a former grain silo dramatically converted by Thomas Heatherwick. Zeitz, who turns 60 in April, has granted the museum use of his collection for the rest of his life. It is up to his children what happens next: “I hope [they] will be interested in continuing the collaboration. But it would not be fair to impose this on them.” 6 KISTEFOS JEVNAKER, NORWAY Founded by the Norwegian investor Christen Sveaas in 1996 in the forest that surrounds the pulpmill his grandfather built northwest of Oslo, Kistefos is both a home for works he owns – “Even I can’t live with 2,000 pieces of art, I like to share!” – ranging from 19th-century Norwegian painters such as Edvard Munch and Harald Sohlberg to Lynda Benglis and Lawrence Weiner. It also mounts exhibitions of loaned works in the architecturally astonishing Twist, “a gallery, bridge and sculpture all in one” that traverses the river and was designed by the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels. 7 MUSEUM OF ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY BENGALURU, INDIA Due to open on 18 February 2023, MAP is the first new private museum to open in India in a decade. The creation of the self-styled “acquisition junkie” and businessman Abhishek Poddar, it will showcase works from a holding of 60,000 photographs – the most extensive collection in India – as well as South Asian paintings, sculptures, textiles, works of tribal art and Bollywood ephemera, in displays that strive to “blur the boundaries between what is regarded as high art and the everyday creativity of [Karnataka’s] communities.” 95

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