Other Art

Other Art can mean many things. It can mean the common manifestations of creativity that we are used to not recognizing as art, often art we somewhat sweepingly label "folk art," a concept that lumps together all kinds of outsiders and minorities, social and ethnic.

What the Museum of Other Art aims to make visible cannot be understood from a single, unchangeable viewpoint. The Museum wants to promote an inclusive attitude towards all art, a culture that is open to many different ways of seeing and visualizing. A culture that invites the Other: the different, complex, ambivalent, individual, simple, seductive, vulgar, joyful, humoristic, ugly, and subjective. A culture willing to go beyond the restraints of the approved, beyond fashion, institution, taste and marketability. To renegotiate this part of reality must be an important task for any modern museum.

The Museum of Other Art wants to create and encourage a dialog between the many different aesthetic viewpoints that co-exist in our modern society.
We will exhibit objects that are possible to interpret and experience on several different levels, objects that are often born more out of a feeling, a passion, than from a skill. In this way we hope to introduce new areas of human creativity into the concept of art.

There are many different kinds of art, all with their own means of expression and all with practitioners who are more or less successful in their endevours. But you won't find all kinds of art in art galleries, or reviewed in the cultural pages of the press.  You have to look in other places to find an other kind of art, an art that has been there all the time, but has been invisible.
One of the Museum's primary commitments will be to exhibit anonymous and non-commercial works of art: objects that may more commonly end up in flea markets than in art galleries. This circumstance might make you believe that such objects are worthless. But are they? Objects without status are invisible. To become visible they require another context, a context of respect and focus, which is what the Museum of Other Art aims to provide. We want the visitor to the museum to confront and experience these anonymus objects without guidance, name tags, price tags, or mythologies . We want to give the inherent power of the object a fair chance to develop in a friendly context and perhaps generate that strange and visible magic that moves you.