The Cabinet

The Cabinet is a new project space offering a unique twist on traditional modes of exhibition.
On a bi-monthly basis selected artists will be invited to create site-specific installations for the inside of an antique curio cabinet. Drawing inspiration from the history of exhibition spaces and/or engaging the form of the cabinet and its interactive potential, artists are invited to interpret and utilize the space of
The Cabinet in any way they please.

Cabinets of Curiosity and Wunderkammern were early modes of display, for both natural and man-made objects, and are the precursors to today's museums. These cabinets or rooms were packed to the brim with a range of bizarre artifacts: tokens from the new world, ancient and fabled relics, to medical oddities and exceptional artistic creations. Often so fabulous as to defy established categorization and pushing the boundaries of fact and fiction, cabinet contents were given a status in between the two as curiosities and wonders. It is the imaginative authoring of these microcosmic histories and the miniature presentation of complete taxonomies that is the most intriguing legacy of the Cabinet of Curiosity, as the fundamentals of categorization and perception are called in to question.


Inaugural exhibition: August 2009