The Museum of Everything (museum)
The Museum of Everything is a non-profit organisation and platform which stages installations of art by private, self-taught and non-academic art-makers (sometimes referred to as art brut or outsider art).
Establishment and description[edit]
The Museum of Everything staged its first exhibition in London in October 2009.[1] It then continued to present large-scale surveys at different locations around the world, working within and alongside partner institutions and organisations. [2]
The first location for The Museum of Everything was a former dairy and recording studio in Primrose Hill, London. It was here that it first staged its celebrated exhibitions (2009/2010). The Museum of Everything then travelled to other venues, including: Selfridges, the department store and former hotel in London (2011); Chalet Society, a temporary space in Boulevard Raspail, Paris (2012/13); and Serra dei Giardini, Venice (2013) as part of the 55th Venice Biennale. The Museum of Everything also created installations at public and private museums, including: Tate Modern, London (2010); Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin (2010); Garage, Moscow (2012); Hayward Gallery, London (2013); Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam (2016); and Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania (2017/18).
The museum has described the material on display as "untrained, unintentional, undiscovered and unclassifiable". More importantly, it rejects much of the terminology of otherness, notably that of "outsider art".[3] Exhibitions are generally surveys of material from makers around the world. The 2017/2018 exhibition at Mona in Tasmania presented almost 2,000 artworks by over 100 artists.[4]
Exhibits[edit]
- The Museum of Everything was an Official Participant in the 2013 Venice Biennale.[1]
- The Museum of Everything exhibited at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam in 2016.[5]
- The Museum of Everything exhibited at the Museum of Old and New Art in 2017.[1][4]
Artists included in the exhibitions[edit]
The Museum of Everything presents works by hundreds of artists, including:
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Delaney, Brigid (14 June 2017). "'The private life of art': the Museum of Everything opens in Hobart". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- ^ Rule, Dan (21 October 2014). "Museum of Everything founder James Brett not naive about outsider art". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
- ^ Northover, Kylie (14 August 2017). "The art of the ordinary". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- ^ a b Shine, Rhiannon (10 June 2017). "MONA's latest offering The Museum of Everything shining light on unknown artists". ABC News (Australia). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- ^ "The Museum of Everything". Kunsthal. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- ^ "The Daily Telegraph - The Museum of Everything". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
External links[edit]
- The Museum of Everything website
- The Museum Of Everything - Stuff to do from Museum of Old and New Art website