The Anti-Museum addresses the idea of anti-art in a broad sense, evoking attempts to disrupt rules and customs in diverse artistic disciplines. One must not forget that the notion of anti-art is set against the one that “everything is art”; they are conjoined. Both contradictory and provocative, they translate an artist’s desire to challenge art with its own means.

Mathieu Copeland and Balthazar Lovay, together with a stellar list of contributors, present the first extensive exploration of the radical and paradoxical concept that is ‘the anti-museum’ – a term so present in art history and yet that has never been the object of a detailed investigation and definition.

AUTHORS
Guillaume Apollinaire / Andrea Bellini / Zach Blas / Andrea Branzi / Erik Bullot / Billy Childish / Johannes Cladders / Iris Clert / Beatriz Colomina / Mathieu Copeland / Branislav Dimitrijevic / Jim Drobnick / Stanley Fisher / Véronique Follet / Yona Friedman / Michel Gauthier / Akasegawa Genpei / Michel Giroud / Kenneth Goldsmith / Richard Goldstein / Krist Gruijthuijsen / Katie Guggenheim / Storm van Helsing / Jon Hendricks / Hans Hollein / Ryan Holmberg / Stewart Home / Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux / Roberto Jacoby / Jakob Jakobsen / Gareth James / Déborah Laks / Balthazar Lovay / Boris Lurie / George Maciunas / Robert Morris / Achille Mbembe / Bob Nickas / Nicolas de Oliveira / Nicola Oxley / Mai-Thu Perret / Lil Picard / Yvonne Rainer / Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes / Matthieu Saladin / Fanny Schulmann / Sören Schmeling / Olivier Suter / Charles Thomson / Jean Toche / Reiko Tomii / Paulo Pires do Vale / Dora Vallier / Alan Wallach / Thibault Walter / Peter Weibel

ARTISTS
John Armleder / Robert Barry / Andrea Branzi / Marcel Broodthaers / Daniel Buren / Graciela Carnevale / Maurizio Cattelan / Maria Eichhorn / Hanatarash & Yamatsuka Eye / Henry Flynt / Yona Friedman / Piero Gilardi / Swetlana Heger & Plamen Dejanov / Hi Red Center / Ishiko Junzo / GX Jupitter Larsen / Lefevre Jean Claude / Lydia Lunch / Sasaki Maki / Alessandro Mendini / Cady Noland / Lorraine O’Grady / Robin Page / Steven Parrino / Santiago Sierra / Robert Smithon / Ettore Sottsass / Takis / Jean Tinguely / Rirkrit Tiravanija / Ben Vautier / Matsuzawa Yutaka

A Retrospective of Closed Exhibitions, 5 August–19 November 2016