The Inhotim Institute in Brumadinho (Minas Gerais), 60 km away from Belo Horizonte, is a Brazilian contemporary art museum. It is one of the largest outdoor art centers in the world, with 23 pavilions designed by Brazilian architects including Arquitetos Associados, Rodrigo Cerviño Lopez/Tacoa Arquitetos, and Rizoma. It was founded by the former mining magnate Bernardo Paz in 2004 to house his personal art collection and opened to the public a couple of years later.
Fattoria di Celle, Santomato, Italy
Fattoria di Celle in Santomato (not far from Florence, Italy) is the brainchild of entrepreneur and collector Giuliano Gori. It is a (working) farm with a manor house and a vast English garden dotted with small late 19th-century buildings. Since 1982, more than 50 specially conceived works by contemporary artists have been placed in this context.
Château La Coste, Aix-en-Provence, France
Château La Coste – opened in 2011 – is a sculpture park, art destination and organic winery in Provence, France. The property includes Villa La Coste, a luxury hotel, restaurants and a sculpture park that contains art and architecture by Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma, Oscar Niemeyer, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers (the Drawing Gallery is his final project) and many others. Irish property magnate Paddy McKillen is the estate owner.
UNESCO, Paris
UNESCO headquarters in Paris opened in 1958 and is a treasure of modern architecture and the fruit of collaboration between several iconic architects of the twentieth century such as Bernard Zehrfuss, Marcel Breuer and Pier Luigi Nervi. The garden contains many works by great artists (such as Pablo Picasso or Henry Moore), but also small architectural works such as Tadao Ando’s meditation pavilion.
Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, United Kingdom
Opened in 2014 by Hauser & Wirth, one of the world’s most influential contemporary art galleries, Hauser & Wirth Somerset – in a former farmstead in Bruton, UK – is home to a program of art exhibitions, events, learning activities and artists’ residencies. Piet Oudolf, the internationally renowned Dutch landscape designer (one of his most famous projects is the High Line in Manhattan), has designed the landscaping scheme for the entire site, including Oudolf Field — a large perennial meadow situated behind the gallery buildings. At the top of Oudolf Field sits the Radić Pavilion. Designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radić, it was installed in March 2015.
