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A Ship in Lleida, a Chapel in Chile or an Ancient Cinema in Kazakhstan: This Is the Guide that Reveals the Secret Geography of Contemporary Art

Summary by El Pais
To get to La Congiunta, a concrete pavilion built in 1992 by the brutalist architect Peter Märkli, you have to go to the Swiss town of Giorno, near Lugano, and ask for the keys to the building in the village’s oyster. You also need to drive—in particular, 65 kilometers from Doha—to visit the overwhelming sculptural installation of Richard Serra in the desert of Qatar, formed by four huge steel plates erected in the middle of the void. Contempora…

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A Ship in Lleida, a Chapel in Chile or an Ancient Cinema in Kazakhstan: This Is the Guide that Reveals the Secret Geography of Contemporary Art

To get to La Congiunta, a concrete pavilion built in 1992 by the brutalist architect Peter Märkli, you have to go to the Swiss town of Giorno, near Lugano, and ask for the keys to the building in the village’s oyster. You also need to drive—in particular, 65 kilometers from Doha—to visit the overwhelming sculptural installation of Richard Serra in the desert of Qatar, formed by four huge steel plates erected in the middle of the void. Contempora…

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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Tuesday, December 16, 2025.
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