Bee's palace
Adrien Missika
Palazzo delle api
Adrien Missika designs a metabolist bee palace
Client: La Raia Foundation – Novi Ligure
Artist: Adrien Missika
Inauguration: 27th of May, 2018
2300 holes
The sculpture we created and designed by Parisian artist Adrien Missika, combining art, architecture and landscape. Art at the service of biodiversity with a Luserna stone bee-hotel containing 2,300 ‘rooms’ for insects.
The Palazzo delle Api is the result of research on bee hotels that began a few years ago during a residency in Mexico. These structures are very popular with gardeners and growers, designed to host different varieties of pollinating insects – including solitary bees, bumblebees, ladybirds – providing them with a place to nest or hibernate. Inspired by the 1960s Japanese metabolist architecture, the sculpture is a sort of upturned Aztec pyramid, pierced by 2,300 holes of various diameters to house insects.
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