The President of the La Caixa Foundation, Isidro Faine, and the Mayor of L’Hospitalet, Nuria Marin, presented an agreement to transform a warehouse in L’Hospitalet into a new cultural center called ArtStudio CaixaForum.
The La Caixa Foundation has announced its plan to renovate and expand a warehouse in Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), turning it into Collection ArtStudio CaixaForum. A new center that will be dedicated to collecting and intensifying work Contemporary Art Collection organization consisting of 1069 works by 445 artists.
Investments in this project will amount to 12 million eurosand the resulting building will occupy 10,000 square meters in the Cultural District of Hospitalet. Its main purpose will be to function as a government-level reference center for the research and conservation of works of art. It is also envisioned as a “think tank” that will facilitate the meeting of arts professionals, the organization said in a statement.
Mayor of L’Hospitalet, Nuria Marinand President of the La Caixa Foundation, Isidra Feinpresented a contract for refurbish this warehouse built in 1976which now houses part of the foundation’s art collection.
Among the artists represented in the collection of the La Caixa Foundation are Anthony Tapies, Juan Muñoz, Bruce Nauman, Ignasi Abagli, Gerhardt Richter, Sigmar Polke, Mona Hatoum, Cindy Sherman, Pierre Huyge and Soledad Sevilla.
The new infrastructure will allow you to join in one space all works of art from the foundation’s collection of contemporary artsince your deposit is now divided between CaixaForum Barcelona and this warehouse.
Two decades later, these two spaces had reached their capacity limits, and the foundation decided to concentrate all work, workshop and conservation laboratoryand collection equipment, as well as including the general use of the entire Exhibition and Collection Area, which will allow free places at CaixaForum in Barcelona.
It is planned to reconstruct the warehouse, which will have a total area of 10,000 square meters in the corner. between Da Vinci Street and Carrilet Avenuewill start in mid-2024 and will be put into operation in 2026.
The organization chose the architectural design from Pretel Arquitectura, which also worked on the adaptation of the CaixaForum Barcelona premises, the renovation of the Palau Sant Jordi extension in Barcelona and the renovation of the Estadi stands. Olympic.
Nuria Marin
The mayor of Hospitalet de Llobregat, Nuria Marin, assured that the city is “very alive culturally” and that, since the establishment of the Cultural District, one of its objectives has been to promote the cooperation of arts and cultural representatives with other agents, organizations and institutions.
He said that with the advent of the ArtStudio collection, CaixaForum is becoming closer to artists and creatives.”unique and unique heritage“and strengthens an area that never stops growing.
Isidra Fein
The President of the La Caixa Foundation, Isidre Faine, assured that ArtStudio CaixaForum is the “finest hour” of 40 years of work with the Collection and will strengthen the commitment to making culture accessible to all as an engine of social change.
He explained that with this project we want to give “even more value to this unique heritage and continue to work on the connection with the most vibrant reality”, as well as on the ability to create associations and establish connections between art and society.
Birth of the La Caixa Foundation’s contemporary art collection in the mid 80sbecame “first private collection in Spain and reference in Europe”, and presented 194 exhibitions with more than 585,000 visitors.
Source: El Independiente