MARTIAN MUSEUM OF TERRESTRIAL ART

MARTIAN MUSEUM OF TERRESTRIAL ART - Encyclopaedia of Terrestrial Life, vol. VIII, Barbican Art Gallery.

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art presents contemporary art as if shown in a fictional museum conceived by and designed for extraterrestrials. This ambitious, playful and irreverent exhibition transforms the Barbican Art Gallery into an imaginary museum, with a mission to interpret and understand contemporary art. It features around 150 works — primarily sculpture as well as mixed media, video, photography and works on paper — by over 80 established and emerging artists, from the 1960s until now. They include Joseph Beuys , John Bock , Marcel Broodthaers , James Lee Byars , Maurizio Cattelan , Richard Hamilton , Isa Genzken , Barbara Hepworth , Susan Hiller , Thomas Hirschhorn , Damien Hirst , Mike Kelley , Yves Klein , Sherrie Levine , Piero Manzoni , John McCracken , Annette Messager , Bruce Nauman , Sigmar Polke , Simon Starling , Haim Steinbach , Francis Upritchard , Andy Warhol and Cerith Wyn Evans .
The exhibition opens to the public on 6 March 2008.