Calder Gardens

"Designed by Karlssonwilker, the new Calder Gardens logomark was rendered to emphasize the negative space between the two words in the institution’s name. The void suggests the vigor and tension of Calder’s art as well as a sense of welcome, telegraphing Calder Gardens’ mission to be a living, breathing space where art and environment are open to interpretation. As an extension of this approach, the website has been conceived to present the institution’s unique proposition as a multilayered cultural space that visitors will experience in many ways. Featuring a simple but bold visual navigation, the site is immersive as well as informative. It will grow and evolve over time, like Calder Gardens itself, to include content that spotlights upcoming activities and programs."

Centering Calder’s passion for experimentation, interdisciplinary collaborations, cross-media practices, real-time experience, and embrace of impermanence, Calder Gardens will be a place for art, culture, environmental awareness, and introspection. Its site, featuring a building designed by Pritzker Prize winning design practice Herzog & de Meuron and landscape of native and flowering species designed by Piet Oudolf, will present a rotating selection of masterworks curated by the Calder Foundation, New York.

Alexander Calder, whose illustrious career spanned much of the 20th century, is the most acclaimed and influential sculptor of our time. Born into a family of celebrated though more classically trained artists, Calder utilized his innovative genius to profoundly change the course of modern art. He began in the 1920s by developing a new method of sculpting: by bending and twisting wire, he essentially “drew” three-dimensional figures in space. He is renowned for the invention of the mobile, whose suspended, abstract elements move and balance in changing harmony. From the 1950s onward, Calder increasingly devoted himself to making outdoor sculpture on a grand scale from bolted steel plate. Today, these stately titans grace public plazas in cities throughout the world.

Image credit: Calder Gardens © Herzog & de Meuron
All artworks by Alexander Calder © 2024 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York