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Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art

Installation of Martian Museum

Mission: to interpret and understand contemporary art.

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art presented contemporary art works under the fictional guise of a museum collection conceived by and designed for extraterrestrials. Playful and irreverent, the museum’s collection featured some 175 works by over 115 artists, from modern masters to bright new stars.

Believing these objects to have a real or functional use, the Museum’s curators deployed an eccentric classification system. They treated artworks as artifacts. The Martian perspective opened up contemporary art to fresh interpretations as well as humorous misunderstandings. In presuming to understand an unfamiliar culture, the Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art parodied the way that Western anthropologists historically viewed non-Western cultures through alien eyes. 
 

Tagged with: Art Gallery Archive

Co-curator by Lydia Yee and Francesco Manacorda

Sponsored by east, American Center Foundation and The Henry Moore Foundation

Featured Artists

Marina Abramović, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Carlos Amorales, Eleanor Antin, Ibon Aranberri, Art & Language, Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, Alexandra Bircken, John Bock, Martin Boyce, George Brecht,  Marcel Broodthaers, Angela Bulloch, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, André Cadere, Cai Guo-Qiang, Maurizio Cattelan, Spartacus Chetwynd, Adam Chodzko, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Marcus Coates, Peter Coffin, Michael Craig-Martin, Björn Dahlem, Walter Dahn, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Wim Delvoye, Jimmie Durham, Eric Duyckaerts, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Tatiana Echeverri, Fernandez, Brian Eno, Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Anya Gallaccio, Ryan Gander, Mario Garcia Torres, Isa Genzken, John Giorno, Douglas Gordon, Loris Gréaud, Victor Grippo, Nancy Grossman, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Subodh Gupta, Anthea Hamilton, Richard Hamilton, David Hammons, Anne Hardy, Mona Hatoum, Jay Heikes, Lothar Hempel, Geoffrey Hendricks, Barbara Hepworth, Susan Hiller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer, Matthew Day Jackson, Luis Jacob, Gareth Jones, Brian Jungen, Mike Kelley, Scott King, Yves Klein, Milan K nížá k, Július Koller, Dr. Lakra, Jim Lambie, Louise Lawler, Guillaume Leblon, Sherrie Levine, Mark Lombardi, Goshka Macuga, Paul McCarthy, Piero Manzoni, John McCracken, Cildo Meireles, Annette Messager, Matthew Monahan, Bruce Nauman, Mike Nelson, Cornelia Parker, Ben Patterson, Manfred Pernice, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Arturas Raila, Jason Rhoades, David Robbins, Dario Robleto, Ugo Rondinone, Dieter Roth, Jim Shaw, Andreas Slominski, Daniel Spoerri, Simon Starling, Haim Steinbach, John Stezaker, Rosemarie Trockel and Thea Djordjadze, Keith Tyson, Francis Upritchard, Jeffrey Vallance, Erika Verzutti, Francesco Vezzoli, Andy Warhol, Rebecca Warren, Gillian Wearing, Richard Wentworth, Pae White, Cerith Wyn Evans 

Reviews

‘One of the year's zaniest shows‘
The Telegraph