Building a collection
Building a collection
FENIX is the first museum in the world to highlight the theme of migration with a permanent collection of contemporary art, which already consists of 200 artworks. The artworks and objects demonstrate that migration is timeless and they show how themes such as love, goodbyes, home and happiness are connected to it. They tell stories from yesterday, today and tomorrow. Stories that cross borders.
Our collection includes work by artists working internationally, such as Rineke Dijkstra, Bill Viola, Grayson Perry, Francis Alÿs, Shilpa Gupta and Kimsooja, as well as emerging talents such as Benjamin Li and Omar Imam. FENIX has additionally commissioned five artists to create new work for the museum. Beya Gille Gacha, Efrat Zehavi, Cha Eun Rhee, Raquel van Haver and Hugo McCloud are currently working on assignments that give their perspective on migration.
FENIX also collects personal objects with a story about fleeing, travel or migration and over the past three years 2,000 suitcases for a suitcase maze.
For instance, in the museum you will soon be able to take a seat in an enormous New York City bus made of fabric, meet a 3.4-metre-tall sculpture of the superhero ‘Space Refugee’ or look at one of the very first refugee passports.