Worldwide studio WHY Structure has launched photos of the Dib Bangkok museum, which it claims will probably be “Thailand’s first museum devoted to worldwide modern artwork”.
Set to open in Bangkok in December 2025, the 71,000-square-foot (6,596-square-metres) museum will probably be housed in a Nineteen Eighties warehouse renovated by WHY Structure.
As soon as open, the museum will showcase each Thai and worldwide modern artwork meant to function “a bridge between Thailand and the worldwide arts scene”.
“Dib Bangkok is Thailand’s first main museum devoted to worldwide modern artwork,” the studio mentioned.
The establishment was based by Thai businessman Purat Osathanugrah, in honour of his late father Petch Osathanugrah, whose assortment of artworks will compose Dib Bangkok’s assortment.
“Bangkok, with all its vitality, creativity, and unstoppable spirit, has lengthy been overdue for an anchor to its modern artwork scene that matches its vibrancy,” Osathanugrah mentioned.
“We’re constructing Dib Bangkok to be a real inventive oasis, a bridge between Thailand, Southeast Asia, and the worldwide artwork scene.”
Containing 11 galleries, the three-storey museum is flanked at floor degree by a spacious, tiled courtyard the place a curved staircase leads as much as a raised walkway.
The constructing’s largely-concrete construction was accomplished with a completely glazed floor flooring, whereas its extra discrete higher ranges are punctuated with protruding home windows.
Further areas embrace the Chapel, a particular cone-shaped gallery, which is full with a mosaic-tiled exterior and a skylight, and sits amongst a water characteristic.
A equally rounded “penthouse” construction, which will probably be used for internet hosting occasions, sits atop the museum’s roof and is accessed by way of an exterior staircase.
In accordance with the studio, the museum’s minimalist design attracts on the Buddhist idea of enlightenment – meant to welcome guests into an “austere, concrete” floor flooring forward of its “contemplative” higher flooring.
Photographs revealed forward of its opening reveal moody gallery interiors divided by concrete columns on the bottom and first flooring, whereas a set of entirely-white gallery areas illuminated by the roof’s openings occupy the second flooring.
The museum’s inaugural exhibition opening later this yr will characteristic works from its personal assortment underneath the theme of Invisible Presence.
This opening present may even embrace installations by Thai artist Montien Boonma and large-scale sculptures by worldwide artists Lee Bul, Anselm Kiefer and Alicia Kwade, amongst others.
“With Dib Bangkok, WHY Structure’s intent was to mirror town’s evolving function as a world artwork vacation spot, crafting an area that fosters dialogue amongst artists, curators, and the general public, whereas supporting each neighborhood engagement and artistic trade,” studio founder Kulapat Yantrasast mentioned.
WHY Structure is a world studio based in 2004 by Yantrasast, working out of Los Angeles, New York, Bangkok and Paris.
Elsewhere, Kaan Architecten accomplished the Eco-Museum as a part of a lagoon remediation in Brazil and Atelier Apeiron topped an arched cultural centre with a terraced roof backyard in China.
The renders are courtesy of WHY Structure.
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