The Depot Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam breaks with the traditional art museum by making accessible all facets of the art curation process. Rather than concealing the work of restoration and cataloguing, the depot gives visitors new reasons to appreciate art beyond the final product hanging on gallery walls.
This bold new approach to ‘showcasing’ art is matched by a similarly bold new building: a large reflective ovoid that distorts the neighborhood into playful cubist concoctions. The new building makes a clear statement about the depot’s philosophy: just as we shouldn’t reduce our appreciation of art to a final ‘polished’ state, we should similarly see the world around us as a place ripe for artistic contemplation.
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