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 BMW Guggenheim Lab,
a long-term collaboration between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
and BMW, was launched in New York, kicking off its journey around
the world. The Lab recently concluded its stay in Berlin, where it was open from
June 15 through July 29, 2012, in the neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg.
Currently, the Lab is open in Mumbai, where it is operating in
collaboration with the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum through January 20, 2013. 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.