Museum of Art in New Mexico to open new space

The New Mexico Museum of Art will open Vladem Contemporary, a $20 million contemporary art outpost located in a renovated 1930s warehouse in Santa Fe's Railyard district, on September 23. Designed by dnca architects, the Vladem will exclusively present art from the 1980s onwards, much of it by living artists, with its expansive home allowing a focus on large-scale installations, multimedia projects and performance-based works. The new institution will open with the exhibition “Shadow and Light”, which will feature loans as well as works from the New Mexico Museum of Art’s collection, all investigating the idea of light as a historical inspiration for artists from past and present generations.

Situated on the opposite end of the Railyard District from the SITE Santa Fe contemporary art space, Vladem Contemporary is named for arts patrons Robert and Ellen Vladem, who contributed $4 million toward its construction. The remainder of the project's funding came from other private donors, who contributed about $8.5 million, and the state of New Mexico, which provided more than $6 million.

Source: Artforum