Beaubourg in Nikola-Lenivets Park

Beaubourg is the largest art object in the Nikola-Lenivets Park, which is located on the territory of the Ugra National Park. It is located in a field on the road leading to the Village of Nikola-Lenivets. The events of the Arkhstanding festival take place near it every summer. 

Nikola Lenivets Art Park was created in 2004 on the banks of the Ugra River, on the initiative of the artist Nikolai Polissky. This Park is open for creative experiments of artists and architects. They build art objects in the forest and in the fields.  

The Beaubourg art object was built in 2013 by Nikolai Polissky and his friends. It was named Beaubourg after the famous Georges Pompidou Center for Art and Culture, built in Paris in 1977. Architects Richard Rogers (Great Britain) and Renzo Piano (Italy) implemented a revolutionary project of a cultural center for those years.  

They have freed up the internal space of the building as much as possible, and all pipes, elevators and even load-bearing structures have been made outside. Previously, architects hid the technical infrastructure inside the building, but here the architects did the opposite. The Georges Pompidou Center is located on Beaubourg Square, and this name of the square is often associated with the Cultural Center. 

Nikolai Polissky, creating the famous art object Beaubourg, built a metal frame with a height of 22 meters and then wrapped the pipes with a birch vine. Birch vine weaving is made according to the traditional basket weaving technology. Some people associate these pipes with saxophones, others believe that they are similar to ventilation pipes, like the Beaubourg Cultural Center in Paris. 

The Beaubourg art object is located in a field among the deciduous forest of the Ugra National Park. 2 kilometers away is another famous Art object, the Universal Mind, and 2.5 kilometers away is the village of Nikola-Lenivets.