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New Art Containers in Norway
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Organizes
Centre Obert d’Arquitectura
Place
Sala d'Actes
Plaça Nova 5, first floor
Barcelona
Time
At 7 pm
Price
Free
Co-organizes
Norway has carried out a radical modernization of its museums. Two of the most prominent – the Munch Museum in Oslo and the Kunstsilo in Kristiansand – are the work of Estudio Juan Herreros andJens Richter from Madrid, and Mestres Wåge, MendozaPartida and Bax Studio from Barcelona, respectively.
On Thursday, June 27, there will be a jointly organized talk with the Norwegian Embassy, featuring Jens Richter, Magnus Wåge, and Mara Partida to discuss their projects and their work experience in Norway. Notably, the new Munch Museum is a newly constructed vertical museum, and the Kunstsilo is an innovative transformation of a classic silo. Both represent a radical change for the urban landscape and the art exhibitions they house.
Jens Richter
He joined Herreros Arquitectos in 2006, where he was appointed office director in 2010 before becoming a partner at estudioHerreros since its founding in 2014. Since then, Jens has been involved in estudioHerreros' most renowned projects, overseeing the construction of the New Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, opened to the public in 2021; the completion of the multi-format events center Ágora-Bogotá in 2018 in the Colombian capital; and the development of new residential areas such as the Mistral residential complex in Marseille, France, and a hybrid housing building in Sant Boi, Barcelona. Jens is a frequent lecturer and invited critic at various universities and academic institutions in Europe, North America, and China.
Magnus Wåge
Graduated from the Oslo School of Architecture in 2003. In 2005, he co-founded Mestres Wåge Arquitectes in Barcelona with Maria Mestres. Today, the firm has branches in Barcelona and Oslo. Since 2010, he has been the responsible professor and professional coordinator for the third year at the Bergen School of Architecture, and occasionally collaborates with other schools as an external critic and lecturer; he has also served on various architecture competition juries.
He has won numerous national and international competitions, including the recently inaugurated Kunstsilo museum, the cultural school in Kristiansand, the Nautical Node in Barcelona, the Flytårnet station for the new metro line in Oslo, and the Førde Town Hall. With the latter project, the studio was a finalist for the International FAD Awards and the Norwegian Arkitekturprisen.
Currently, he is involved in developing the Flytårnet metro station in Oslo and the Nautical University in the port of Barcelona.
Mara Partida
Mara Partida combines her professional activity with academia and research. She has been a PhD professor at ETSAB UPC since 2008 and has been a Visiting Professor at various international universities, such as DRURY in Missouri, USA, and the China Academy of Arts under the direction of Professor Wang Shu (Pritzker Prize winner).
She was a principal partner at MX_SI until 2016, when she co-founded Mendoza Partida with Hector Mendoza. Throughout her career, she has won significant national and international competitions that have been realized, including the Federico García Lorca Center in Granada, the Serlachius Museum Gösta in Finland, the ARTsauna in Finland, the ROG art center in Slovenia, the KUNSTsilo in Norway, the Children's Museum Yancuic in Mexico City, among others.
Currently, she is involved in relevant national projects such as the City Archive of Barcelona CAN BATLLÓ, the Ministry of Finance headquarters in Cadiz, and the Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology of Cantabria (MUPAC) in Santander.
Her work has been awarded by CSCAE with the International Architecture Prize in Spain 2013, the Plečnik Prize in Slovenia, the FAD Award, the Spanish Biennial of Architecture, Iconic Awards - Best of the Best, and nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe Award, among others.