Tea with Nefertiti
The exhibition is concerned with the critique of museology, the staging of the artwork, the writing of art-historical narratives and the employment of mechanisms of visual and literary display as a means of forming, informing and framing cultural otherness.
Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath of Art Reoriented, Tea with Nefertiti is organized along three thematic chapters that reflect on the process of appropriation, de-contextualization and re-semanticisation that an artwork undergoes as it travels through time and place. In doing so, it unpacks the complex relationships that exist between such artworks, the artists who first made them, and the institutions that exhibited them.
Tea with Nefertiti is constructed around a series of juxtapositions and groupings of historic, modern and mainly contemporary artworks and documents. This is intended as a gesture towards breaking away from more familiar museum classifications that have been conventionally based on geography, periods and/or styles. Through adopting this model, the exhibition attempts to put forward a notion of art history informed by a network of complex nodes, both historical and current, rather than the reductive and binary notions largely adopted in the construction of the art historical canon, specifically from the modernist period onwards.
The exhibition is concerned with the critique of museology, the staging of the artwork, the writing of art-historical narratives and the employment of mechanisms of visual and literary display as a means of forming, informing and framing cultural otherness.
Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath of Art Reoriented, Tea with Nefertiti is organized along three thematic chapters that reflect on the process of appropriation, de-contextualization and re-semanticisation that an artwork undergoes as it travels through time and place. In doing so, it unpacks the complex relationships that exist between such artworks, the artists who first made them, and the institutions that exhibited them.
Tea with Nefertiti is constructed around a series of juxtapositions and groupings of historic, modern and mainly contemporary artworks and documents. This is intended as a gesture towards breaking away from more familiar museum classifications that have been conventionally based on geography, periods and/or styles. Through adopting this model, the exhibition attempts to put forward a notion of art history informed by a network of complex nodes, both historical and current, rather than the reductive and binary notions largely adopted in the construction of the art historical canon, specifically from the modernist period onwards.
Artists on show
- Adam Broomberg
- Ai Weiwei
- Ala Younis
- Alberto Giacometti
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Amy Nimr
- Armand
- Bassem Yousri
- Candida Höfer
- David Roberts
- Emily Jacir
- Francis Frith
- George Frey
- Georges Hanna Sabbagh
- Georges Henein
- Ghada Amer
- Gilbert & George
- Grayson Perry
- Honoré Daumier
- Ida Kar
- Iman Issa
- Kees van Dongen
- Lee Miller
- Little Warsaw
- Lorraine O'Grady
- Luigi Mayer
- Maha Maamoun
- Mahmoud Mokhtar
- Maurice Denis
- Mohamad Said Baalbaki
- Nida Sinnokrot
- Oliver Chanarin
- Paul Klee
- Ramses Younan
- Rudolf Ernst
- Susanne Kriemann
- Taha Belal
- Thomas Demand
- Thomas Struth
- Tino Sehgal
- Van Leo
- Vik Muniz
- William Kentridge
- Xenia Nikolskaya
- Youssef Nabil
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