Four Boxes Gallery
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The Four Boxes Gallery is a modern art gallery in the grounds of Krabbesholm Højskole
near Skive, Denmark
. The gallery was designed by the Japanese architects Atelier Bow-Wow
, and is a three-storey building conceived as four stacked boxes used to exhibit work by both students of the Krabbesholm Højskole and invited artists.
The school arranges 6-8 exhibitions each year featuring the work of artists, architects and designers from Denmark and abroad.
The 250 square meter gallery is set on the green lawn of the school between the Craftsmen’s School and the red brick Idé-Pro factory.
The modern concrete structure is designed as four stacked boxes. The lower two boxes form outdoor galleries and an indoor gallery.
The box in the middle is a smaller exhibition room, and the box at the top is a private workshop and living space for the artist in residence.
The building has been described as "quintessentially Japanese, yet also strangely oversized and villa-like, as it extends the built vocabulary of the school with its clear-cut concrete edges".
According to Momoyo Kaijima, one of the architects, "We tried to obtain a fusion between space and light, in a way to create 'gap spaces', that is the leftover spaces in between the four boxes which bring light into the building".
Krabbesholm Højskole
Krabbesholm Højskole is a is a Danish-language residential high school founded in 1885, located in Skive, Denmark with students from several nations....
near Skive, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
. The gallery was designed by the Japanese architects Atelier Bow-Wow
Atelier Bow-Wow
Atelier Bow-Wow is a Tokyo-based architecture firm, founded in 1992 by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kajima. The firm is well known for its domestic and cultural architecture and its research exploring the urban conditions of micro, ad hoc architecture....
, and is a three-storey building conceived as four stacked boxes used to exhibit work by both students of the Krabbesholm Højskole and invited artists.
The school arranges 6-8 exhibitions each year featuring the work of artists, architects and designers from Denmark and abroad.
The 250 square meter gallery is set on the green lawn of the school between the Craftsmen’s School and the red brick Idé-Pro factory.
The modern concrete structure is designed as four stacked boxes. The lower two boxes form outdoor galleries and an indoor gallery.
The box in the middle is a smaller exhibition room, and the box at the top is a private workshop and living space for the artist in residence.
The building has been described as "quintessentially Japanese, yet also strangely oversized and villa-like, as it extends the built vocabulary of the school with its clear-cut concrete edges".
According to Momoyo Kaijima, one of the architects, "We tried to obtain a fusion between space and light, in a way to create 'gap spaces', that is the leftover spaces in between the four boxes which bring light into the building".