Hans Hollein: High in the Pompidou-an architect heritage is celebrated!

Hans Hollein: High in the Pompidou-an architect heritage is celebrated!

Vienna, Österreich - Hans Hollein, the famous architect and Pritzker award winner, is recognized with two important exhibitions in Paris. From March 4, the first retrospective in the Center Pompidou will open, an event that not only celebrates Holleins' careers, but also underlines the special status of this exhibition. According to vienna.at this is the only individual exhibition of an Austrian architect in this renowned museum, which is also about a five-year closure. Hollein, who already had a retrospective in the pompidou in 1987, is again recognized with a comprehensive collection of 173 exhibits who document his multicultural work and ideas.

The exhibition, which runs under the title "Hans Hollein. Transforms", is accompanied by a discussion in which Max Hollein, his son and director of the Metropolitan Museum in New York also takes part. Max describes the effects of his father on the architecture and emphasizes: "The pompidou was of particular importance for my father - as an icon of architectural innovation." This celebration of the life's work is supplemented by a careful curated collection that stimulates the discussion about Holleins influence on the architecture of the past five decades.

insights into the beginnings and successes

At the same time, the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery shows another exhibition that focuses on the spirit of optimism in the 1960s. Under the leadership of curator Dorothea Apovnik, Holleins vision of architecture is presented in its early phase, including its famous model of the "hanging city structure with a traffic junction". This exhibition offers an intimate insight into its creative beginnings when Hollein found that “all architecture” is. The curatorial approach aims to capture Holleins innovative way of thinking about urban structures and their energy, which is present in his work, as Apovnik emphasizes.

Max Hollein has contributed to establishing an understanding of the connection between contemporary and classical art through his various stations in the art sector, including as director of the Schirn Kunsthalle and the Städel Museum. His experiences, as in Vogue , reflected his commitment to present art as a dynamic and constantly developing field. The upcoming exhibitions in Paris are another chapter in the persistent honor of Holleins Heritage and its influence on architectures of today.