ambda files. The Munch Museum project in Oslo

Description

Curated by Valentín Roma and co-produced by CentroCentro, La Virreina Center de la Imatge in Barcelona and arc en rêve in Bordeaux, this exhibition documents the twelve years of work that EstudioHerreros has devoted to the project and construction of the Munch Museum in Oslo.

The name of the exhibition, Archivos Lambda, uses the motto under which the anonymity of the Herreros study proposal was protected in the failed international competition in 2009, which, unusually, was used by the media until construction of the building began.

Far from the grammars handled by architecture exhibitions, the idea of ​​the archive is manifested here through a series of materials that document the internal history of the project and that do not usually see the light of day because they are considered "bureaucratic paper", avoiding the usual plans and photos in which there is no trace of the innumerable contingencies that accompany the design and commissioning processes. In the midst of a situation in which museums are rethinking their attributions and their public senses, we consider it necessary to approach a radically different case: that of a museographic institution that is built from scratch, that of a city that changes its physiognomy with the appearance of a new architectural element, that of citizen and collective uses that give meaning to a cultural infrastructure. Thus, Lambda Files.

The Munch Museum project in Oslo shows how the new ways of doing architecture are the result of intense processes of political and social dialogue, of long-term collaborations between diverse agents.

It is worth highlighting, among the numerous documents that are presented, the unpublished images that the photographer Iwan Baan has made of the building and its surroundings, which do not show it from a fetishistic or object perspective, but from a situated prism of unforeseen use.