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Lawrence Weiner Within a Realm of Distance at Blenheim Palace, 2015.
Blenheim Art Foundation (BAF) is a multi-award-winning non-profit organisation that presents large-scale contemporary art exhibitions at Blenheim Palace.
BAF contains the work of many world-renowned artists within the historic setting of the Palace and its celebrated grounds. The award-winning programme has earned a reputation for challenging the "white cube" aesthetic that has become synonymous with the presentation of contemporary art. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987, Blenheim is one of the country’s most celebrated stately homes, attracting close to a million visitors a year from all over the world. With its diverse public, the programme also aims to open up new audiences to the discovery of modern and contemporary art. Alongside the contemporary art programme at Palace of Versailles, BAF has been praised for re-inventing the experience of heritage sites.[1]
The foundation launched on 1 October 2014 with an extensive survey exhibition by Ai Weiwei, which was the artist's largest UK exhibition to date.[2] The programme continued in 2015 with an exhibition by Lawrence Weiner, followed by Michelangelo Pistoletto in 2016, Jenny Holzer in 2017,[3][4] and Yves Klein in 2018, Maurizio Cattelan in 2019,[5] and Cecily Brown in 2020. In 2021, the Foundation unveiled its eighth exhibition, an intervention by Tino Seghal.
Blenheim Art Foundation was founded by Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill, son of the 11th Duke of Marlborough, John Spencer-Churchill. The director of the Foundation is Michael Frahm.
In 2016, Blenheim Art Foundation won Hudson's UK Heritage Award for Best Innovator[6] and in 2019, Jenny Holzer's display at the Palace earned the Global Fine Art Awards' prize for 'Best Public Exhibition'.[7]
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