The property billionaire (and son of the late, legendary collector Heinz Berggruen) has continued to evolve the thinktank activities of his Berggruen Institute, which supports cutting-edge thinking and research into the interconnected worlds of global politics, science, technology and philosophy. Art isn’t always far from these, though with the conclusion of its ‘Transformations of the Human’ programme last year (which supported artist fellows such as Ian Cheng and Anicka Yi), the art-focus has taken a step back (that programme has been spun off into an independent organisation). Though Berggruen’s huge Herzog & de Meuron-designed ‘scholar’s campus’ project in the Santa Monica Mountains has yet to break ground, the institute’s Venice satellite space is now up and running, and in March Berggruen acquired a second palazzo, the future base for Berggruen Arts & Culture, scheduled to open in 2024, with Sterling Ruby currently artist-in-residence.