The Guggenheim Foundation is committed to international communication and cross-cultural exchange. Each year the Guggenheim lends hundreds of works of art from its permanent collections to other museums, cultural institutions, and government agencies around the globe. These loans—along with collaborative exhibitions with partners worldwide—enable the Foundation to engage ever-broader audiences and promote broad cultural discourse.
 
During the past five years, Guggenheim-organized exhibitions have been presented in more than eighty museums around the world. These include, in recent years, such special and traveling exhibitions as Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe, which following its New York opening, traveled to the National Art Museum of China in Beijing as a part of the cultural Olympiad during the Olympic Games in August 2008; Art in America: Three Hundred Years of Innovation, which premiered in Beijing in February 2007 before traveling to Shanghai, Moscow, and finally Bilbao; and Felix Gonzalez-Torres: America, presented at the U.S. Pavilion of the 2007 Venice Biennale. In 2009, the exhibition Anish Kapoor: Memory inaugurated the Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim, which is dedicated to exhibiting in New York works of art commissioned jointly by Deutsche Bank and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as other thematic exhibitions, which are also presented at the Deutsche Guggenheim. In 2010, the Guggenheim joined with YouTube, the world’s largest online video community, for YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video. Presented in collaboration with HP and Intel, the biennial aims to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video. And in August 2011, the first two-year cycle of the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a long-term collaboration between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and BMW, was launched in New York, kicking off a six-year journey around the world. The Lab is currently in transit to Berlin, where it will be open from June 15 to July 29, 2012. Housed in an innovative movable structure, the BMW Guggenheim Lab brings together ambitious thinkers and serves as a public space for research, experimentation, and the sharing of ideas about major issues affecting urban life.
 
With each of its select collaborations the Guggenheim Foundation strives to learn, grow, and in return, share its knowledge and ever-expanding collections with as diverse an audience as possible—important goals in an increasingly global, interconnected world.