The activity structure has evolved over the past 15 years with constantly changing strategies and new designers and artists, as can be seen today in works by Maarten Baas, Jaime Hayon and Studio Job. These new refined interventions that are being inaugurated today contribute to the sense of a backdrop and the idea of labyrinthine alienation contained in the original design concept. Inside, the idea was and is to create new highly varied scenarios that will show the artworks in architectural spaces that are active and not neutral, that can produce surprises, curiosity and attention. On the outside, the idea was and is for each pavilion to have a visual identity of its own to match the cultural sections: history, design and craft, classical art and contemporary art, a sort of architectural self-representation.
Groninger Museum's second life
After a renovation project which took over 8 months, the Groninger Museum reopened its doors with new spaces by Baas, Hayon and Job.
The activity structure has evolved over the past 15 years with constantly changing strategies and new designers and artists, as can be seen today in works by Maarten Baas, Jaime Hayon and Studio Job. These new refined interventions that are being inaugurated today contribute to the sense of a backdrop and the idea of labyrinthine alienation contained in the original design concept. Inside, the idea was and is to create new highly varied scenarios that will show the artworks in architectural spaces that are active and not neutral, that can produce surprises, curiosity and attention. On the outside, the idea was and is for each pavilion to have a visual identity of its own to match the cultural sections: history, design and craft, classical art and contemporary art, a sort of architectural self-representation.