Art Forum – Dib Bangkok, Thailand’s first major museum of international contemporary art, will open this December in downtown Bangkok. The institution, whose name translates to “raw” or “natural, authentic state” in English, will house the collection of businessman Petch Osathanugrah (1960–2023) and will occupy a 71,000-square-foot building that served as a steel warehouse in the 1980s and has been redesigned by Kulapat Yantrasast of WHY Architecture, the firm overseeing the major overhaul of the Louvre in Paris. The three-story museum will boast a sawtooth roof and will comprise eleven galleries—one of which is cone-shaped and known as “The Chapel”—as well as a 15,000-square-foot central courtyard and an outdoor sculpture garden. – Read More
