Private Spaces for Contemporary Art

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Author

Peter Doroshenko is the Executive Director at the Dallas Contemporary, Texas. Before his arrival in Dallas, Doroshenko was the President and Artistic Director of the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv. He has held director positions over the past eighteen years, including Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; SMAK - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent; and inova (Institute of Visual Arts), Milwaukee.

Doroshenko has organized numerous one-person exhibitions including the artists: Candice Breitz, Maurizio Cattelan, Sam Durant, Kendell Geers, Andreas Gursky, John McCracken, Mariko Mori and Sam Taylor-Wood. He has written or contributed to several books and numerous exhibition catalogues on artists including: Dora Garcia, Joseph Havel, Adriana Varejão and Erwin Wurm.

Doroshenko has lectured extensively at many post-graduate programs and residencies over the years including: de Ateliers, Amsterdam; Core Program at the Glassell School of Art, Houston; Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp; Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht; La Pavilion/Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna; and the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York.

In 2007 and 2009, he was the commissioner for the Ukrainian Pavilions at the Venice Biennale.

Content

Private Spaces for Contemporary Art presents fifty of the most important private museums and their unique architecture, which house the most significant collections of contemporary art around the world.

In the past fifteen years, many contemporary art collectors have chosen to part ways with traditional museums to create their own private spaces for their works of art. These individuals are now creating their own private museums, which are run more like businesses and are completely independent because their founders financially sustain them.

Private Spaces for Contemporary Art is the first book to document this global phenomenon that is fast becoming a new institutional paradigm for the 21st Century. Private Spaces for Contemporary Art presents the most important private museums housing the best contemporary art collections from around the world. Liberated from the public institutional model of showing a roster of rotating exhibitions, these ‘boutique’ museums focus on and reflect the independent artistic interests of their collectors.

These collections often include some of the most important modern masterpieces and challenging art today. They are also housed in spectacular spaces, many of them designed and erected for the sole purpose of showcasing their unique collections, creating an ideal backdrop and environment for the artworks.

Compiled and written by Peter Doroshenko, the book presents these museums, their architecture and a glimpse of their extraordinary collections. In addition to lavish photographs of the structures and their interiors, this luxurious over-sized volume includes an informative introduction on this emerging phenomenon, texts about the collections and their architecture as well as interviews with prominent collectors such as Rosa de la Cruz, Julia Stoschek and Don and Mera Rubell.

Author: Peter Doroshenko