The Museum of the Unwanted

Museum collections are the basis for exhibitions and inspire the curatorial work. The situation is similar with the disparate "An-collections" of objects that lie dormant in many studios. Intrigued by their potential, the artist Clare Goodwin (born 1973), "The Museum of the Unwanted" initiated the project. Your concept of a wandering and changing group exhibition explores artistic practices which are based on various collection strategies.

Same passionate discoverer of forgotten, outcast or discarded items that live in Switzerland Briton is interested in chance encounters with things and the resulting processes, can be a creative catalyst of artistic work which the elsewhere "Unwanted".

As custodian of its "Museum of undesirables" Goodwin invites colleagues with related operation to common presentations a. After the first station in train 2014, it gathered for the exhibition in Olten a new group of Swiss and international artists. The works she shows in a two-story spanning installation from discarded movable walls of the Historical Museum Baden. Rearranged change this spatial effect and write the Kunstmuseum Olten the floor plan of Goodwin's "museum" a. The expansive Environment lays exciting covers various artistic practices open and also blurs the boundaries between artwork exhibition display.