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T H E M { } E S U M | B E R L I N is proud to present the first in a series of specially commissioned exhibitions: The British Muesum

a group

show by international artists Anna Livia Löwendahl-Atomic, Hannah Murgatroyd and Atalya Laufer.Private View

Friday, 24th February, 7-10 pm

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Opening times vary please check website

or by appointment

T H E M { } E S U M | B E R L I N , Jonasstraße 31 12053 Berlin.

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From missing masterpieces to the unpublished, unfinished and undone, the world’s most significant off-space to specialise above all in loss, unrealised possibilities and absence, known as n∅bjects* welcomes the historic, documented, memorable, renowned and infamous as well as the forgotten, unidentified, unsung, mundane and obscure.

'Master-piece' by Atalya Laufer (Israel) is an erected black and white paper totem. Hundreds of drawings she has done in recent years in the British Museum have resulted in a seemingly organically formed pole of crumpled sketches. Her own collection of the British Museum has finally found an emblematic and formless form.

In her poem ‘The British Museum’, Hannah Murgatroyd (UK) appropriates texts from the British Museum’s digitised archive of the ceramics collection of her forebear, the pre-Raphaelite painter, Henry Wallis. Interspersed with observation and recollection, the poem is a picturesque investigation into present and past – simultaneously tangible and metaphysical.

Anna Livia Löwendahl-Atomic (Sweden), the director/muesum attentant of T H E M { } E S U M, will display an expanding archive of British Muse/Mues -um n∅bjects* and parallel/interconnected/overlapping works in the making where the final product/s may or may not be ephemeral, left incomplete or not entirely known. Many n∅bjects* in the British Museum collection are disputed and lost from its original location and therefore also form part of the m{ }esum collection. Additionally, there are over 30 000 missing bits from The British Museum, from heads of sculptures and figurines, to mirror handles and pin heads. During The British Muesum her continuous exploration of m{ }esum issues will unfold, partially in front of the muesum visitor, for during opening times her ongoing work will take place in full view. She also invites the public to donate their own n∅bjects* to the permanent muesum archive, and to join her for daily afternoon tea.

London and its museums have played an important role in the lives of the three artists who are now based in Berlin.

T H E M { } E S U M | B E R L I N is the visible wing of the obscure M { } E S U M

To find out more information visit: http://themuesum.org/

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