White Cube LIRCAEI Museum / OMA

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  • Architects: OMA
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2017
  • Category: Museum
  • Partner In Charge: David Gianotten
  • Project Manager: Max Scherer
  • Project Architects : Emma Lubbers, Adrian Subagyo
  • Executive Architect: IJAMBO, Kinshasa
  • Construction: COPIREC, Kinshasa
  • Advisor: Witteveen+Bos, engineering and consulting agency
  • Sponsors: KASK School of Arts Ghent, Gieskes-Strijbis Fund, Mondriaan Fund, The Art of Impact
  • City: Lusanga
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White Cube LIRCAEI Museum / OMA - Exterior Photography
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Text description provided by the architects. Appearing neutral in shape and colour, a white cube insulates art from the sociopolitical realm, sustaining its timeless value in an everlasting investment cycle. As a white cube foregrounds artists and patrons, it leaves the bottom of the global economic chain out of the canvas: human labours that generate capital for international corporations to fund art creations, yet receive no economic benefit from the art economy. Established as an apolitical space to sustain art’s timeless value, can a white cube still be a platform to address inequality in the art economy, or even an active agent to make timely social changes?

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Cite: "White Cube LIRCAEI Museum / OMA" 03 Jan 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/953992/white-cube-lircaei-museum-oma> ISSN 0719-8884

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