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

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

Artists included in the exhibitions

The Museum of Everything presents works by hundreds of artists, including:

References
  1. Delaney, Brigid (14 June 2017). "'The private life of art': the Museum of Everything opens in Hobart". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  2. 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.
  3. Northover, Kylie (14 August 2017). "The art of the ordinary". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  4. 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.
  5. "The Museum of Everything". Kunsthal. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  6. "The Daily Telegraph - The Museum of Everything". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
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