Photo Blog: Re-opening of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
By Hanae Ko
QIU ZHIJIE‘s ink mural The World Garden (2016), the first of Berkeley Art Museum’s "Art Wall" series, which commissions artists to create a work for the venue’s public lounge area. All photographs by Hanae Ko for ArtAsiaPacific.
On the last day of January, the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) opened its sleek, new, 7,600-square-meter space in the eponymous city of California, known for being the home of University of California, Berkeley. Designed by New York-based studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro, who were also the architects behind the High Line park in Manhattan, the museum kicked off its re-opening with "Architecure of Life," an exhibition that explores the theme of architecture—in the physical, structural, mental and spiritual sense of the word—through a variety of artworks on loan and from their permanent collection, including traditional craft, religious objects, scientific drawings, charts, videos, paintings and sculptures, among others.
