The Instituto Inhotim open-air contemporary art museum was created in 2008 in the Minas Gerais region of Brazil, famous for its gold and gemstone mines.
Its creator, Bernardo de Mello Paz, presents contemporary works interacting with the environment in 1000 hectares of tropical forest. A collaboration between young architects who design shelters for the works of great artists, it brings together 700 creations by 60 artists from 40 countries, including Doug Aitken’s Sonic Pavilion, where visitors can sit next to a 200 m-deep hole, bend their ears and listen to the sounds coming from the bowels of the earth.
