Fotografiska, the worldwide community of images museums, will shut its location on Park Avenue in Manhattan on 29 September because it plots a transfer to a brand new, bigger New York locale. The Stockholm-founded museum (which additionally operates places in Berlin, Shanghai and Tallinn, the capital of Estonia) opened in New York in 2019, taking up the historic Church Missions Home, an ornate 1892 constructing on the nook of Park Avenue South and East twenty second Avenue. (The constructing had beforehand been eyed by one purported German heiress as a potential location for her unique artwork and social membership.)
The museum’s two ultimate particular exhibitions at 281 Park Avenue South—dedicated to the enigmatic self-taught photographer Vivian Maier and the New York road photographer Bruce Gilden (opening 31 Could and 21 June, respectively)—will stay on view till the house closes on 29 September. In the meantime, Fotografiska’s in style bar inside a former chapel and its restaurant, Verōnika, will shut in mid-June.
“On the core of Fotografiska is a dedication to inspiring new views by amplifying a few of the best artists of our time,” Yoram Roth, the chief chairman of Fotografiska’s board, stated in a press release. “Because it’s turn out to be clear that our present house is just not conducive to this imaginative and prescient, our dedication to town’s artwork scene stays unwavering.”
After closing its present locale, the museum will maintain an exhibition chronicling a century of New York nightlife images at a brief house.
Fotografiska’s present house is owned by the real-estate tycoon and artwork collector Aby Rosen’s firm, RFR Holding. In 2022, the corporate put the property up on the market for $135m, a serious markup from the $50m it had paid for it in 2014.
