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Henning Larsen Architects at Bildmuseet

On Sunday, October 28 at 14:00 Bildmuseet opens an exhibition featuring Henning Larsen Architects, the internationally successful Danish architectural firm whose work with the new Bildmuseet and the School of Architecture at the Arts Campus has left its mark on Umeå.

You are warmly welcome on Sunday. The exhibition will be opened by curator Cecilia Andersson. Architects Per Ebbe Hansson and Louis Becker of Henning Larsen Architects are also present at the opening.

Architecture affects the environment, the city or the countryside and the community that it is a part of. Also, the environment, the city, the landscape and the community in turn influence the architecture. Henning Larsen Architects has offices in several cities and is currently working on projects in some twenty locations around the world. How do they determine how a building should look? How does architecture relate to a specific location?

The exhibition presents a selection of the architectural office’s methods and procedures. Models and texts answer questions about form and materials and presents insight into ways of relating to local culture and future prospects in a number of different countries.

Besides the two Umeå projects is also an example from Iceland where Henning Larsen Architects has designed Harpa, a concert hall and conference centre in Reykjavík and which now houses the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and The Islandske Opera. In collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson, a kaleidoscopic colourful façade consisting of nearly 1,000 faceted glass elements was developed which now reflects the city and the surrounding landscape.

The exhibition also presents models and an animated film about the enormous financial district now being built in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah Financial District will, when ready, accommodate 30 million square meters of construction and aim to pave the way for a new economy when the country's income from oil gradually reduces or ends. Here will be shops, homes and cultural institutions. One of these, the Children's Interactive Museum, is constructed based on Saudi Arabian children’s desires of what they want a museum to be, and contains both play and learning.

The shape of the aquarium in Batumi on the Black Sea shore in Georgia is inspired by stones polished by the waves. The aquarium is divided into different sections where each stone-shaped housing body represents a marine habitat: the Mediterranean, the Aegean Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Black Sea and the Red Sea.
Bildmuseet and the School of Architecture at Umeå Arts Campus, Umeå University, is designed by Henning Larsen Architects in cooperation with White Architects in Umeå.

Henning Larsen Architects exhibition runs until November 25.

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Cecilia Andersson, curator Bildmuseet
090-786 66 84, 072-223 86 71
cecilia.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.se

For press images, please contact
Helena Vejbrink, Communications manager
090-786 9073, 073-801 9073
helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se

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Bildmuseet, Umeå University, is a public institution for contemporary art and visual culture. We exhibit and engage with international contemporary art, design and architecture. In conjunction with the exhibitions program we also arrange lectures, screenings, concerts, performances and workshops. Ethics and aesthetics, the global and the local, creativity, society and human living conditions are central to Bildmuseet’s programme. Over the years, Bildmuseet has established itself as a leading venue for contemporary art in Sweden.

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At Umeå University, you will also find the highly-ranked Umeå Institute of Design, the environmentally certified Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics and the only architectural school with an artistic orientation – Umeå School of Architecture. The university also hosts a contemporary art museum Bildmuseet and Umeå's science centre – Curiosum. Umeå University is one of Sweden's five national sports universities and hosts an internationally recognised Arctic Research Centre.

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