It's ironic to think that I first got interested in art in Vail. But my real interest and the collection grew out of my time in San Francisco. I'm always interested in societies that are undergoing change, and there now seem to be a lot of creative forces coming together in Berlin. In many ways we're forging a new paradigm for how a museum works with what I think will be an increasing number of still-active collectors. Our objective is to have the art shown.
Most museums display a small fraction of their art a small fraction of the time.
Just to move the art from our storage to a museum's storage doesn't make sense. It doesn't serve the artist's objective, either. Another important thing I've come to realize is that most museum collections are collections of objects. Ours has always been a collection of ideas and themes. It was important to us that it be shown as a collection.