André Malraux, the great French author, culture minister, and promotor of museum spaces wanted to create the museum without walls, an imaginary museum, allowing for an unimpeded interaction between art from different continents, cultures, ages. The Virtual Museum goes even further: located in the metaverse, accessible anytime from anywhere by anyone.

This is a true 3D, immersive, interactive experience allowing the juxtaposition of art from anywhere and anytime. This experience gives the interacting visitors a playful and better understanding of the language and vocabulary of art, which will be shown in a sequence of exhibitions.

The sponsor of this privately funded project, Asian Art:Future (AA:F) is a Hong Kong-based private collection, with exhibits from the Martin Kurer Collection, of traditional and contemporary Asian art. Currently, it is sponsoring a multi-year project looking into the aesthetic values, the expression of traditional art from the Philippine Cordilleras.

AA:F admires the simplicity, the power, the pure representations, the command of “cubic existence in real space” (to borrow an observation of D.H. Kahnweiler on “Negro sculpture” in respect of African sculptures), the plastic symbolism and reality, the directness, the powerful expression of the Cordillera traditional sculptures.

And AA:F is extremely interested in learning to understand why traditional art of tribes of various continents, frequently show the same choices, use the same elements of expression, though we know that there was never an exchange, or at least not at the time of the creation of the relevant objects.

Do you have a question about the Virtual Museum, exhibitions, or want to give us your feedback? Feel free to contact us. You can also take a look through our FAQs.

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DEVELOPMENT
Sebastian Tobler, Xavier Heimgartner, Jan Schneider, Melissa Derrer, Moreno Vogel
Ateo, Zurich, Switzerland

Fedir Boytsov
Odessa, Ukraine

DESIGN BUILDING
Sachi Fujikake
Nagoya, Japan

ADDITIONAL DESIGN
Paolo Salgado
Agape Design
Manila, Philippines

PHOTOS
At Maculangan, Jade Moya
Pioneer Studios
Manila, Philippines

VOICE ARTISTS
Marte Angelo Pacana
Dyanne Mae Rivera
Manila, Philippines

VARIOUS TEXTS
Ramon „Monchito“ Nocon
Manila, Philippines

PROJECT SPONSOR, COPYRIGHT
AsianArt:Future, Ltd. Hong Kong

PROJECT COORDINATOR
Karina Altamia
Manila, Philippines

SPECIAL ADVISER
Lorenz Homberger
Formerly: Rietberg Museum
Zürich, Switzerland

Special thanks to Dr. Florian Knothe, University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR and Julien Flak, Galerie Flak Paris, France for their valuable advice.

MUSEUM DIRECTOR
Dr. Martin Kurer