The K20 Art Collection in Düsseldorf is home of one of Germany’s most important contemporary art collections. When the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia decided to update and expand its original 1986 home two years ago, the administrators tapped the architects of the existing museum, the late Arne Jacobsen’s Copenhagen-based Dissing+Weitling. As they had to shutter the facility to execute the renovation and 21,528-square-foot addition, they also called upon the Bonn-based lighting design firm Licht Kunst Licht to overhaul the dated lighting system.
With numerous museums in their portfolio, Licht Kunst Licht principal Andreas Schulz and lighting designer Alexander Rotsch were accustomed to the demands of illuminating light-sensitive works of art that require shadow-free viewing. Their solution here integrates the architecture and lighting throughout the old and new buildings, seamlessly blending daylight and electric light — fluorescent and halogen — with the structural elements and other mechanical functions, such as ventilation and fire safety.
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