Marta Herford

Marta Herford, the museum of contemporary art, architecture, and design in Herford, Germany (housed in a Frank Gehry-designed building), which mounted the exhibition and catalog We Are All Astronauts: The Universe of Richard Buckminster Fuller as Reflected by Contemporary Art.

Marta Herford's program pairs contemporary art with architecture and design. Its We Are All Astronauts project examined how present-day artists freely reinterpret Fuller's forms and ideas rather than literally quote them, gathering scholarly essays on his work alongside a catalog of recent art responding to his legacy.

Role in Fuller's world

Marta Herford represents the contemporary-art afterlife of Fuller — an institution that reframed him for a twenty-first-century art audience, treating his open, systemic thinking as a live influence rather than a historical curiosity.

See Also

• We Are All Astronauts (We Are All Astronauts) — the exhibition catalog the museum produced

Sources

• We Are All Astronauts (source reference) — the exhibition catalog