21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

The  is a art museum in central Honshū in Japan. It is in Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture. It is next to the Kenroku-en Japanese garden and near the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art. The museum opened in October 2004.21st Century Museum, History, retrieved 2012-2-9.

Collection

The museum has a large collection of modern art.  Art made after 1980 is an important part of the collection.

Artists in the collection include:

Francis Alys, Matthew Barney, Tony Cragg, Olafur Eliasson, Leandro Erlich, Isa Genzken, Kojima Hisaya, Gordon Matta Clark, Carsten Nicolai, Giuseppe Penone, Gerhard Richter, Murayama Ruriko, Hiraki Sawa, Atsuko Tanaka, James Turrell, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Anne Wilson, and Suda Yoshihiro.

Building
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the architect office SANAA designed the building. They won the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize, partly because of their work on the museum.Prtizker Architecture Prize,  Jury Citation, 2010; retrieved 2012-2-9.

The building is a circle, with a diameter of 112.5 meters.21st Century Museum, Architectural Concept , retrieved 2012-2-9.

References

 Other websites 

 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art website ,  
 Aerial view on Wikimapia

Category:Art museums in Japan
Twenty-first
Category:2004 establishments in Japan