Inhotim
Rua B, 20, Inhotim, Brumadinho, MG, Brasil 35460-000
The collection comprising 500 works of art by over 100 artists and temporary exhibitions are presented in the outdoors or within twelve galleries spread throughout the environmental park.
The permanent galleries were designed specifically to receive the works of Tunga, Cildo Meireles, Adriana Varejão, Doris Salcedo, Victor Grippo, Matthew Barney, Rivane Neuenschwander, Valeska Soares, Janet Cardiff & George Miller and Doug Aitcken, after intense dialogue among the artists, architects and the institution.
The temporary galleries – Lago, Fonte, Praça and Mata (meaning, respectively, lake, spring, square and forest) – have an approximate area of one thousand square meters each (almost 11 thousand square feet). Their shared architectural design involves large free spans which provide versatility for the exhibition of videos, installations, paintings, sculptures, etc. All the galleries conform to international art museum standards, in terms of air conditioning and other facilities.
The Tropical Park has areas which were developed along the guidelines suggested by famed landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx. The enormous variety of plants at Inhotim make it one of the largest botanical collections in the world, with rare tropical species and a forest reserve which is part of the Atlantic Forest biome.
Mission Statement
Instituto Cultural Inhotim is an original museum complex, formed by a non-linear sequence of pavilions in the midst of a botanical garden. It is focused mainly on contemporary art and environmental issues, in addition to research and education in these two areas. It is a place where knowledge is produced based on its art pieces and botanical richness.
Created in 2005, Inhotim is a private, non-profit entity, duly classified by the Government of the State of Minas Gerais as a Public Interest Non-Governmental Organization.
Inhotim holds a precious collection of contemporary art as well as a large botanical treasure. There the environment lives in harmony with art, and both are the basis of wide-reaching education actions of a social nature. This treasure is the basis for the development of research, scientific innovation and education.
The representative collection of contemporary art at Inhotim has been formed since the mid-80’s, focusing on works created from 1960 on. There are paintings, drawings, photographs, videos and installations of Brazilian and international artists.
