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Baku Museum of Modern Art (Azerbaijani: Bakı müasir incəsənət muzeyi) is a museum of modern art located in Baku, Azerbaijan.[2]

Baku Museum of Modern Art

Established	20 March 2009
Location	Yusif Safarov Street 5, Baku, Azerbaijan[1]
Collection size	800
Public transit access	M 2 Şah İsmail Xətai metro station
Website	www.mim.az

History

The museum was built at the initiative of the First Lady of Azerbaijan, Mehriban Aliyeva and opened on 20 March 2009.[2] It was funded by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, of which the First Lady is head. The foundation has also created projects with the Louvre Museum and the Palace of Versailles.[3] The museum is intended as a focus for an "eco-cultural zone" conceived of by Thomas Krens, former director of the Guggenheim Foundation, that will also include a white-sand beach, a Frank Gehry skyscraper, and a walkway that projects out over the Caspian Sea.[3]

The museum does not have fixed subject areas. The architectural concept of the museum avoids halls with corners and has open passages and walls that meet at different angles, creating a multidimensional perspective of exhibits. Conspicuous metallic structures and the use of the color white unite all parts into a single "moving abstract structure."[2] The chief designer of the museum is the artist Altay Sadikh-zadeh; the architect of the building is Jean Nouvel.[3][4]

Displays

The museum focuses on the second half of the twentieth century and contains over 800 works by notable Azerbaijani painters and sculptors, particularly avant garde art of the 1960s and 1970s, including Rasim Babayev, Ashraf Murad, Gennady Brejatjuk, Fazil Najafov, Mamed Mustafaev, Aga Houssejnov, Ali Ibadullaev, Mir-Nadir Zeynalov, Fuad Salayev, Farhad Halilov, Darvin Velibekov, Eldar Mammadov, Mikail Abdurahmanov, Museib Amirov, Mahmud Rustamov, Huseyn Hagverdiyev, Eliyar Alimirzayev, Nazim Rahmanov, Rashad Babayev and Altay Sadikh-zadeh. There are also non-Azerbaijani modern masterworks by Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, and Marc Chagall from private collectors.[2]

Exhibitions of Azerbaijani photographers such as Elnur Babayev, Fakhriya Mammadova, Ilkin Huseynov, Rena Efendi, Sergei Khrustalev, Sitara Ibrahimova, Tahmina Mammadova are often held in the museum.[5]

The museum includes a children's fine arts department, a video hall, a cafe, a restaurant, a separate hall for private exhibitions, a library, and a bookstore with materials pertaining to world art, architecture and sculpture.[2]

See also

• Azerbaijan State Museum of Art
• Azerbaijan State Carpet Museum
• Azerbaijan State Museum of History
• Shusha Museum of History

References

На других языках

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[de] Museum für moderne Kunst (Baku)

Das Museum für moderne Kunst (aserbaidschanisch Müasir İncəsənət Muzeyi (MIM)) ist ein 2009 in Baku, Aserbaidschan gegründetes Museum insbesondere für moderne und zeitgenössische aserbaidschanische Kunst.

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- [en] Baku Museum of Modern Art

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[es] Museo de arte moderno (Bakú)

El museo del arte moderno de Bakú (en azerbaiyano: Bakı Müasir İncəsənət Muzeyi) – es un museo, que esta situada en la capital de Azerbaiyán, Bakú. El edificio fue diseñado por el arquitecto francés Jean Nouvel.[1]

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[fr] Musée d'Art moderne (Bakou)

Le musée d'Art moderne de Bakou (en azéri : Bakı Müasir İncəsənət Muzeyi) est inauguré le 20 mars 2009 à Bakou. Le musée abrite plus de 800 travaux des jeunes peintres et sculpteurs azerbaïdjanais qui travaillent essentiellement dans le style avant-garde. Les travaux d'artistes tels que Sattar Bahlulzade, Beyukagha Mirzazade, Elmira Shakhtakhtinskaya, Tahir Salakhov, Omar Eldarov, Nadir Abdurahmanov y sont exposés[1]. Le projet du musée est conçu par le peintre Altay Sadikhzade. Une salle d’art pour enfants, la bibliothèque, la salle de projection, le restaurant et l’art-café sont intégrés au musée.

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[it] Museo di arte moderna a Baku

Il Museo di arte moderna a Baku[1] è un museo d'arte moderna che si trova a Baku, nella Repubblica di Azerbaigian.[2]

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[ru] Музей современного искусства (Баку)

Музей современного искусства (азерб. Müasir incəsənət muzeyi) — музей в столице Азербайджана, в городе Баку.

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