Exhibition

Colbert continues his expeditions and the development of Ashes and Snow, which will continue to migrate around the world and has no final destination.

Ashes and Snow first opened at the Arsenale in Venice, Italy, in 2002. The largest solo exhibition ever mounted in Italy, Ashes and Snow received international attention and praise. The exhibition then opened in the Nomadic Museum in New York City on the Hudson River Park’s Pier 54 (March through June 2005) and then migrated to Santa Monica, California (January through May 2006) and Tokyo, Japan (March through June 2007). The show has attracted more than 1.5 million visitors since its first public unveiling.

Ashes and Snow and the Nomadic Museum will always remain an artistic work in progress. New images are added from recent expeditions at each port of call. Like other elements of Ashes and Snow, the museum is an on-going project that will transform in each location to adapt to its environment and the evolving artistic content of the exhibition itself. Colbert will continue to collaborate with innovative architects to integrate the most recent advances in sustainable architecture and give new expression to the museum as it travels.

“The Nomadic Museum restores the possibility of wonder to museums whose excesses of clarity and light have banished the shadows. The power of the show and the power of the building are so reciprocal that it is difficult to separate the dancer from the dance.…In these agnostic and cynical times, the building becomes a place to feel and even believe. Ashes and Snow is a show that is disarmingly, and grandly, simple.”