Antimuseum is a critical institution, where new artistic and social practices are experienced.

The Visual Arts can and should be a vehicle for emancipation. That in a panorama where traditional political practices have lost their meaning, cultural subversion is one of the most fertile spheres of activity when it comes to generating spaces of resistance, empowering democracy and preserving social diversity.

In Antimuseum the artist can no longer be a simple “manufacturer” of objects, but must become utterly involved in all kinds of cultural and political pursuits. His or her sphere of activity must be incredibly broad and unstable. The professional specializing in certain disciplines must disappear and be replaced by an amateur, capable of walking on different surfaces without losing his or her balance.

Our task is not to exhibit cultural products to an audience, but to restore the social ties that transform this audience into a counter-public, into a cultural and politically active community, not into a group of consumers, a target of marketing strategies.

The Atomic Eye - Antimuseum for contemporary art began its activity in 1993, with a site specific installations programm in an old warehouse in Madrid. Since then it has managed several spaces and organized over a hundred exhibitions in Spain and Mexico. After closing its latest art center in December 2007, Antimuseum is working on projects for public spaces, collaborating with civil associations and collectives. It has created a portable device for displaying art. The next scenario for our work is Latin America.

In 2005 Antimuseum has been formed legally as non profit association, based in Madrid, Spain.

Directors
Tomás Ruiz-Rivas and María María Acha

+34 91 577 47 60
Madrid