The Museum of Everything is a non-profit organisation and platform which stages installations of art by private, self-taught and non-academic art-makers (sometimes referred to as art brut or outsider art).
The Museum of Everything staged its first exhibition in London in October 2009. [1] It then continued to present large-scale surveys at different locations around the world, working within and alongside partner institutions and organisations. [2]
The first location for The Museum of Everything was a former dairy and recording studio in Primrose Hill, London. It was here that it first staged its celebrated exhibitions (2009/2010). The Museum of Everything then travelled to other venues, including: Selfridges, the department store and former hotel in London (2011); Chalet Society, a temporary space in Boulevard Raspail, Paris (2012/13); and Serra dei Giardini, Venice (2013) as part of the 55th Venice Biennale. The Museum of Everything also created installations at public and private museums, including: Tate Modern, London (2010); Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin (2010); Garage, Moscow (2012); Hayward Gallery, London (2013); Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam (2016); and Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania (2017/18).
The museum has described the material on display as "untrained, unintentional, undiscovered and unclassifiable". More importantly, it rejects much of the terminology of otherness, notably that of "outsider art". [3] Exhibitions are generally surveys of material from makers around the world. The 2017/2018 exhibition at Mona in Tasmania presented almost 2,000 artworks by over 100 artists. [4]
The Museum of Everything presents works by hundreds of artists, including: