Everything Is Museum

February 22–May 28, 2008

Sackler Center for Arts Education, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Curated by Cai Guo-Qiang

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 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2009. Photo by I-Hua Lee, courtesy Cai Studio.

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

Installation view at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2009.

Photo by I-Hua Lee, courtesy Cai Studio.

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

Brain Storm (Everything is Museum)
2009
Video Installation
Dimensions variable

Installation view at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2009.

©FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa, 2009

Photo: Erika Barahona-Ede

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

Installation view at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2009.

Photo by I-Hua Lee, courtesy Cai Studio.

Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957, Quanzhou, China; Lives in New York)

Everything Is Museum
2008
Prints of photographic documentation on paper and silver marker pen
Dimensions variable

Installation view at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2009.

Photo by I-Hua Lee, 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 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2009.

Photo by I-Hua Lee, courtesy Cai Studio.

Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum staff, and public workshop students

Create Your Own Museum
2008
Museum proposals in various media

Installation view at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2009.

Photo by I-Hua Lee, courtesy Cai Studio.