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Installation View: Countryside, The Future, Installation View: Countryside, The Future, 
Image: Laurian Ghinitoiu courtesy AMO Image: Laurian Ghinitoiu courtesy AMO

Exhibition Team: Countryside, The Future is organized by About the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation:
Troy Conrad Therrien, Curator of Architecture and Digital The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was
Initiatives, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in established in 1937 and is dedicated to promoting
collaboration with Rem Koolhaas and Samir Banta I, Anne the understanding and appreciation of modern and
Schneider, Alexandr Zinoviev, Sebastian Bernardy, Rita contemporary art through exhibitions, education
Varjabedian, Yotam Ben Hur, Valentin Bansac, with Ashley programs, research initiatives, and publications.
Mendelsohn, Assistant Curator, Architecture and Digital The international constellation of museums includes
Initiatives, at the Guggenheim. the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; the Guggenheim
About AMO: Cofounded by Rem Koolhaas in 1999 and Museum Bilbao; and the future Guggenheim Abu
now directed by Samir Bantal, AMO is the think tank of Dhabi. An architectural icon and ”temple of spirit”
the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). where radical art and architecture meet, the Solomon
AMO applies architectural thinking to domains R. Guggenheim Museum is now among a group of
beyond building, often working in parallel with eight Frank Lloyd Wright structures in the United
OMA’s architectural projects to fertilize building with States recently designated as a UNESCO World
intelligence from an array of disciplines. AMO has worked Heritage site.
with Prada, the European Union, Universal Studios, To learn more about the museum and the
Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, Conde Nast, Harvard Guggenheim’s activities around the world, visit

University, the Hermitage, and Virgil Abloh’s Off White. guggenheim.org.
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