{"id":439906,"date":"2026-09-18T11:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439906\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:54:23","slug":"east-austin-warehouse-transformed-into-contemporary-art-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439906\/","title":{"rendered":"East Austin warehouse transformed into contemporary art space"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new art space is opening in one of the city\u2019s most unassuming spots \u2014 an old warehouse in East Austin. On the outside, the building appears as a black storage facility, sleek and industrial, but behind the steel exterior lies contemporary art by a group of international artists.<\/p>\n

Opening Saturday, the Ostillo Art Foundation<\/a> includes a gallery, library and performance space. Founding director Sacha Zerbib said he partnered with local developer Ren\u00e9 Campos to make the space open and accessible for the foundation\u2019s Rosewood neighbors.<\/p>\n

“I always conceived a museum space to be a place where you take care of people, you take care of their brain, you take care of their spirit,\u201d Zerbib said. \u201cYou take care of what they feel, what they see and what they can get inspired from. There’s a lot of work to do, but we can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The foundation\u2019s first exhibition, Masquerade, focuses on the importance of masks throughout history. Zerbib said the art featured reveals the mask\u2019s double meaning of both concealing and expressing oneself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe show opens with a painting called Masquerade by Glenn Ligon,\u201d said Zerbib, who curated the exhibit. \u201cI don’t have any credit for the exhibit\u2019s title. I stole it from this artwork. It’s part of a series Ligon made that all come from James Baldwin’s essay ‘Stranger in the Village.'”<\/p>\n

\"Ostillo<\/p>\n

Michael Minasi<\/p>\n

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KUT News<\/p>\n

Ostillo Art Foundation is opening Saturday in the Rosewood neighborhood. In addition to being an art gallery, it will be the home of the Eastside Kings Festival.<\/p>\n

Baldwin\u2019s essay reflects on his experience as an African American man in a remote Swiss village, where he encountered residents who had never seen a Black person. Zerbib said the inspired artwork starts the exhibit as a nod to Rosewood\u2019s important history as a hub of Black culture due to segregation. <\/p>\n

The foundation will also be the new permanent home of the Eastside Kings Festival<\/a>, a series of concerts in late October that celebrate African American blues, jazz and gospel music.<\/p>\n

The exhibit features artists of eight different nationalities, including Pakistani, German, Colombian, Mexican, French, South African, Iraqi and American. Zerbib said he hopes the foundation continues to grow and include more artists with different backgrounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not imposing on anyone\u2019s choices,\u201d Zerbib said. \u201cWe just want people to walk freely here and start engaging. And if we can inspire them, that’s wonderful.”<\/p>\n

The Ostillo Art Foundation is located at 2600 Rosewood Ave. Admission is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new art space is opening in one of the city\u2019s most unassuming spots \u2014 an old warehouse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6595,132,134,133,4686,117974,152303,117973,152304,152305,27],"class_list":["post-439906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-art","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-gallery","tag-glenn-ligon","tag-masquerade-exhibit","tag-ostillo-art-foundation","tag-rosewood","tag-sacha-zerbib","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}