New Gallery to showcase modern art on former Adelaide hospital site

Plans for Adelaide to have an internationally recognised, standalone gallery dedicated to contemporary artwork are moving forward  with a competition underway for architects to design a new modern art museum at the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site.

The Adelaide Contemporary Gallery has been included in the South Australian Government's plans for the redevelopment of the site at the east end of Adelaide’s North Terrace.

Art Gallery of South Australia Director Nick Mitzevich has long been calling for a separate gallery for modern art, pointing to its potential as a tourist attraction.

He told the ABC "to select a design team to come up with an innovative smart building that will be iconic for the site is a great step forward.

The selection process will be in three stages, with applicants will be invited to express their interest from next month.

Six architects will then be nominated to produce designs, before one is chosen next year.

Mitzevich said the new gallery would complement Adelaide’s Art Gallery of South Australia, just a few hundreds metres away on North Terrace.

He said the Gallery's collection included more than 45,000 works of art that were worth nearly $1 billion, adding “there are 4,000 works in the contemporary area and less than 1% of it is on display.

"What we want to do is put that collection to work ... and make sure it's an important drawcard for the State.

"It's an asset that we just need to leverage much more because the treasure trove of our collection is so profound ... that we've got the collection for the building already."

Image: The concept for the 'white box' art gallery proposed for part of the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site

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