Everything Is Museum

August 19–October 2, 2008

National Art Museum of China, Beijing

Curated by Cai Guo-Qiang

Tan Dun (b. 1957, Hunan Province, China)

TAN DUN • VISUAL MUSIC • DRR
Deconstruction Reconstruction Resurrection (Everything is Museum)
2008
Engineering drafting paper, silk, video projection, and sound

Photo  courtesy Cai Studio.

Jennifer Wen Ma (b. 1973, Beijing, China)

New Adventures of Havoc in Heaven II
2008
Stone, smoke, and video animation

Photo  courtesy Cai Studio.

Norman Foster (b. 1935)

QMoCA-Quanzhou Museum of Contemporary Art
2008
1:333 model, copper plated, and digital print
Print: 168.2 x 237.6 cm
Model: 120 x 90 x 90 cm
Foster+Partners

Installation view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2008.

Photo by Hiro Ihara, courtesy Cai Studio.

Kiki Smith (b. 1954, Nuremberg; lives in New York)

Guard
2003–07
Porcelain
99.1 x 31.8 x 33 cm

Courtesy the artist and PaceWildenstein

Installation view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2008.

© Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation New York. Photo by David Heald.

Thomas Krens (b. 1946)

The Art Museum Is an 18th-Century Idea, in a 19th-Century Box, that More or Less Fulfills Its Structural Destiny by the Middle of the 20th Century
2008
Digital images on high-gloss paper, foamcore, paint
Approximately 183 x 213 cm

Courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Photo  courtesy Cai Studio.