Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

Architectural elements of the museum

The sculpture garden surrounding the museum

Floor plan of the museum's exhibition area

The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art ( Persian موزه هنرهای معاصر تهران Muzeh-ye Honarhā-ye Mo'āsser-e Tehrān ; English Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art , Tehran MoCA for short) is a museum in the center of Tehran and is located in Laleh Park (formerly: Park-e Farah ). It is the most important contemporary art museumin Iran and also houses the largest collection of contemporary art outside of Europe and the United States .

history

The museum was designed by the architect Kamran Diba in the mid-1970s at the instigation of Schahbanu Farah Pahlavi and opened in 1977 on an area of more than 7,000 m² . The architecture of the spacious building combines traditional elements from the desert regions of Iran such as wind towers (badgir) with modern architectural elements .

structure

The museum consists of new galleries, administration buildings, a library, a movie hall, a cafeteria and archives. The building is surrounded by a sculpture garden with works by famous artists such as Henry Moore , Alberto Giacometti and Parviz Tanavoli - including:

Estela a Pablo Neruda (1974) by Eduardo Chillida
rhythmus im raum (1947–48), red granite, by Max Bill
The Steinbock (Capricorn) by Max Ernst
Husband and wife of Alberto Giacometti
Horse and rider by Marino Marini
The therapist of René Magritte
No. 2 (1954) by Mark Rothko

Exhibitions

Five visual art exhibitions are organized each year. Works by important artists of the 19th and 20th centuries such as Claude Monet , Camille Pissarro , Vincent van Gogh , Pablo Picasso , Max Ernst , George Grosz , Jackson Pollock , Andy Warhol , Edward Hopper and Iranian artists such as Kamal-ol-Molk can be seen and contemporary artists such as Parviz Tanavoli, Jazeh Tabatabai , Sohrab Sepehri , Nasser Ovissi , Abolghasem Saidi , Bahman Mohasses , Ahmad Esfandiari and many others. In 2014 it became known that the museum plans to exhibit many of its works of art in Europe.

Web links

Commons : Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art - collection of images

Individual evidence

↑ Thiemo Heeg: The Empress and her art treasure in the cellar. faz.net, May 13, 2014, accessed May 14, 2014

35.711194 51.3903741Coordinates: 35 ° 42 ′ 40.3 " N , 51 ° 23 ′ 25.3" E

[1] Thiemo Heeg: The Empress and her art treasure in the cellar. faz.net, May 13, 2014, accessed May 14, 2014