Jens Richter
Biography
ABOUT
Jens Richter joined Herreros Arquitectos in 2006 where he was appointed Office Director in 2010 after practicing architecture in in Germany, the Netherlands, and China. His professional background in diverse cultural contexts soon made him a key part of the firm, focusing on the development of complex international projects such as the new Munch Museum in Oslo before becoming Partner of estudioHerreros at its foundation in 2014. Jens has been an Assistant Professor at AKH Kassel, Germany, and Visiting Professor at the Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts in Chongqing, China; the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China; and most recently at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland.
PROJECTS TO BE PRESENTED DURING THE EVENT
Project #1: Munch Museum
Start year: 01.01.2008
Located on Oslo’s waterfront, MUNCH is the new home to the world’s largest collection of works by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. The new Munch Museum is not only a facility to safeguard and exhibit a fundamental heritage in the history of Norwegian culture, but an urban enclave that has contributed to transform Oslo into a European metropolis.
Project #2: MALBA Puertos
Start year: 01.01.2021
MALBA PUERTOS, the new enclave of the Buenos Aires institution located in Escobar, is not just a museum but a series of architectural and landscape interventions designed to establish a cultural and artistic hub for the northern region of Buenos Aires Province. At MALBA PUERTOS, three essential interests converge to understand the current role of cultural institutions: art as a tool to question today’s contradictions; the fragility of nature as a central force shaping our relationship with the world; and a commitment to local communities, whose histories deserve to be reimagined.
Project #3: SOLO CSV
Start year: 01.01.2019
SOLO CSV results from the transformation of a former industrial space into a center for the experimentation, discussion, and celebration of art in unexpected configurations and content. Inside, a public circulation of varying dimensions -part corridor, part bustling city street- connects, traverses, and reveals a diverse and often indeterminate program spread across 4.000 square meters on two floors. This circulation loop, with its ambiguous interior/exterior nature, narrows and widens, creating spaces for rest, meeting, and contemplation. It is also punctuated by service elevators and stairs, particularly two key features of vertical circulation: one made of wood and the other of stone-like terrazzo, which connect both floors at key points where the layouts of the two levels coincide.