Herzog & de Meuron

Our personal affinity to art inspired a natural interest, since the beginning of the practice, for cultural projects. Over the past four decades, Herzog & de Meuron have designed over 120 spaces for the visual arts: museums, art depots, artist studios, exhibition and performance venues, fabrication and education facilities, and art centers. These projects are custom made to fulfill the needs of art, the artists and the curators, and of course the public. They follow no set style, each individually questioning and shaping the production, presentation and perception of art in distinct ways.

The completion of three museums in the last quarter of 2021 are our latest milestones of this typology: M+ in Hong Kong, Museum Küppersmühle in Duisburg, and SONGEUN Art Space in Seoul have unique approaches to their respective sites, spatial requirements and materiality, but they share a collective focus to stimulate exchange between people.

We consider these art spaces as public places, where people gather beyond their interest in art. The Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern in London, the Plaza at Caixa Forum in Madrid, the outdoor squares of Tai Kwun Center for Heritage and Arts and the roof terrace of the Museum M+ in Hongkong – although very different in nature, all have become places for communal experience, and many of our art spaces have fostered new life in the neighborhoods they are part of.

126 Tate Modern / 126_CP_0005_718_MS
126 Tate Modern / 126_CP_0005_718_MS
133 Studio Rémy Zaugg / 133_CP_9601_701_CHR
133 Studio Rémy Zaugg / 133_CP_9601_701_CHR
169 SCHAULAGER / 169_CP_0402_743_MN
169 SCHAULAGER / 169_CP_0402_743_MN
201 CAIXAFORUM MADRID / 201_CP_0802_776_IB_9196_H
201 CAIXAFORUM MADRID / 201_CP_0802_776_IB_9196_H
263 THE Tate Modern PROJECT / 263_CP_1207_849_IB
263 THE Tate Modern PROJECT / 263_CP_1207_849_IB

415 M+ / 415_AV_211111_TEASER_18-57-56

433 MKM MUSEUM KÜPPERSMÜHLE, EXTENSION / 433_CP_210923_711_PRI
433 MKM MUSEUM KÜPPERSMÜHLE, EXTENSION / 433_CP_210923_711_PRI
473 SONGEUN / 473_CP_2109_727_IB_2090
473 SONGEUN / 473_CP_2109_727_IB_2090