Casa Daros' status as a privately financed project distinguishes it from the other new museums, most of which have received funds from municipal or other public coffers.
Casa Daros, a 12, 000-square-meter (129, 000-square-foot) space in an impeccably renovated 1866 mansion, will house some of the works acquired the past 13 years by Zurich-based collector Ruth Schmidheiny.
Currently, a Nave is on display at the Daros Foundation in Zurich, and walking through it is like floating: you lose your bearings and move in slow motion, as though doing a moon walk.
Herzog said her team chose to focus on Colombia for the initial show because Colombian art is "almost unknown" here in neighboring Brazil, an illustration of the lack of mutual knowledge and understanding among the national art scenes across Latin America that Casa Daros aims to bridge.