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PEAC – The Paul Ege Art Collection
A place where abstraction meets quiet reflection
From East to West
Located in an old grain factory on the banks of the Campine Canal in Herentals, the Art Center Hugo Voeten represents over 1 700 works that have been collected over a thirty year period.
Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation
Delve into the digital art of the collection exhibited across two spaces.
Museum Liaunig
Featured Collections
RENNIE COLLECTION
With a strong focus on topics that surround identity, social commentary, injustice and appropriation, the Rennie Collection is one of Canada’s largest and most important collections.
LET’S TALK ABOUT WOMEN IN ART
Inside Christian Levett’s mission to champion women artists at FAMM, Europe’s first museum dedicated to women artists.
Collection in Motion
“Our exhibition space does not aim to be an oasis."
Palazzo Monti
Take a look inside the both historic and fresh beauty of Palazzo Monti in Brescia, who we welcome as new to IC.
Museum Angerlehner
Inside one of Austria's leading private museums of contemporary art
Didrichsen Art Museum
In 1965, Marie-Louise and Gunnar Didrichsen created a space that would bring the art they loved to future generations of Finns
The Peters-Messer Collection at the Weserburg
Bremen’s river museum, the Weserburg, hosted works of the Peters-Messer Collection, provoking an investigation of present day qualms and the function of art alongside these.
Piotr Bazylko And Polish Collecting
Co-author of Polish book “Contemporary Art Collector’s Guidebook”, Piotr Bazylko and his collection offers an almost complete picture of Polish contemporary art.
Venke Hoff
For Venke Hoff and her husband Rolf, collecting art is an inseparable part of life.
Muzeum Susch
A 12th-century monastery and brewery in the Engadin Valley of the Swiss Alps
José Mauricio Sanchez Ruiz Collection
Inside the collection built on purchases made on the internet.
Responding to Nature
Tucked away in the vineyard’s of San Francisco you’ll find the secret sculpture park of Nancy and Steve Oliver.
OPINIONS
To the patrons of tomorrow
Laurie Rojas on the future of art patronage and how to nurture enthusiasm for good art, worldly sensibility, curiosity, and connoisseurship.
Why I Stopped Being A Collector (And Started To Collect)
by Benjamin Kaufmann
The Rediscovery of Wonder
»Good art is rarely simple, but it is hardly ever incomprehensible, « says Christian Kaspar Schwarm, IC founder and avid collector who has never lost his excitement for complexity.
The BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors
The 7th edition of the BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors takes you to more than 304 collections in 51 countries and 224 cities.
»Nobody has been to all these places«
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Each year, our curators select 300 private collections for the BMW ART GUIDE by INDEPENDENT COLLECTORS. The requirements for collections are that they must be a) contemporary, b) open for visitors (by appointment only or regular opening hours, and c) of a certain relevance (which our team evaluates). If you would like to submit your collection for consideration, please get in touch.
Collection Visits
Curator Joey Lico teams up with artist Alexis Diaz to visit the mighty Rubell Museum in Miami.