“Stolen Artifact” by Crowe and Rawlinson at the MINI Museum

 

The MINI Museum of XXI Century Arts is proud to announce the launch of the fourth site-specific project designed for its low cost, itinerant architecture: Stolen Artifact, by Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson. The piece will be on view from Saturday, June 25 to July 9 (by appointment) at Kotti-Shop, Berlin.

 

Stolen Artifact a short “guerilla” film of the bust of Nefertiti in the Neues Museum, Berlin, where – like in many other museums – recording an image against the orders of the institution is illegal. The work akes as its starting point the observation that many of the world’s museums have, over the years, built their collections from the outright or covert theft of other people’s cultural heritage. Stolen Artifact complete this tradition, turning the MINI Museum into the owner of the reproduction of an arwork stolen from a traditional museum; and addresses its own frame, itself the result of a statement about copies and original, ownership and free circulation of images.

 

More info: http://blog.theminimuseum.org/