The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Picture perfect V&A ready for Venice festival
Architect Kengo Kuma is to present a photographic exhibition of his ‘living room for the city’ during world-renowned event held at Palazzo Bembo
Photographs of Dundee’s V&A museum will feature prominently in an exhibition at the world-renowned Venice Biennale.
Dundee’s V&A museum is to take a starring role in this year’s worldrenowned Venice Biennale.
A photographic exhibition of V&A Dundee will be presented by Kengo Kuma & Associates, in collaboration with PiM.studio Architects, during the festival, which runs from May 26 to November 25 in Palazzo Bembo, Riva del Carbon, beside the Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal in Venice.
The exhibition is part of Time Space Existence, organised by the European Cultural Centre with the support of the GAA Foundation. V&A Dundee, in consultation with Kengo Kuma & Associates, commissioned architectural photographers Hufton+Crow to produce new images which are featured in the exhibition.
The new design museum will open on Saturday September 15 this year, unveiling Ocean Liners: Speed and Style as its first exhibition, alongside permanent Scottish Design Galleries, new design commissions and an exciting programme of activities for people of all ages.
V&A Dundee will be the first building in the UK designed by Kengo Kuma, the internationally renowned architect who is also designing the National Stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
His vision is for the Dundee museum to be a new “living room for the city”, welcoming everyone to visit, enjoy and socialise, and to reconnect the city with its River Tay waterfront.
He said: “I hope the museum can change the city and become its centre of gravity.”
“I hope the museum can change the city and become its centre of gravity