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Whose Museum We are an artist's museum and collective that has been around since 2008. Anyone can donate anything to the collection. It's blurry. Come by and see what happens.

Thanks Rosa Kwir for hosting us and allowing us to celebrate our collaboration with a publication launch last night in B...
09/11/2024

Thanks Rosa Kwir for hosting us and allowing us to celebrate our collaboration with a publication launch last night in Balzan, Malta! & a huge thanks to all the curious visitors, we loved meeting each and everyone of you!

Today, we'll be hosting a free writing workshop from 15:00 to 17:00 and an open stage from 19:00!

This is the last week to catch our Collection Body at Malmö konstmuseum before it rolls up into a ball and hibernates. I...
24/09/2024

This is the last week to catch our Collection Body at Malmö konstmuseum before it rolls up into a ball and hibernates. It’s also gallery weekend coming up so everything is open and you can make yourself sick on art. Be safe!

In keeping with the sentiment of tedious archiving, an empty donation form with the phrase “I hate forms!” written acros...
06/09/2024

In keeping with the sentiment of tedious archiving, an empty donation form with the phrase “I hate forms!” written across it is blown up to an exaggerated size. This work on paper was donated to the museum at a collecting event. In order to keep the objects’ narratives going, the museum decided to allow for changes, from loss and decay to objects being used and reworked into new pieces. Objects in the collection may be altered, given the appropriate paperwork is filled out. Altered works are considered a form of conservation at Whose Museum that is contrary to museums’ typical obsessions with physical posterity. Artists’ museums are able to try out new methods to see what comes of them and allow for material agency. At Celsius Projects, a series of altered works by artist Patrick Cruz is presented in a vitrine, made from plaster and paint on items in the collection in 2010.

When any one can donate anything to your collection, you get some surprises. After a tablet of M**A was donated in Canada and the collection was about to be shipped off to Europe, the decision was made to alter the ecstasy into a painting. It was dissolved and used in Whose Museum’s Colour Checker Chart (2010). Here, the work is shown next to a painting of an oversized text label and hung on a grey backdrop, borrowing from the tools of museology.

You can still visit the exhibition at Celsius Projects this Saturday and Sunday between 13:00 and 16:00.

At Celsius Projects, a selection of works made by members of the collective are presented. They draw upon the museum’s h...
06/09/2024

At Celsius Projects, a selection of works made by members of the collective are presented. They draw upon the museum’s history and collection in a painterly and joyful display of the unprofessional and ornamental bureaucracy that define the collective’s ethos. Visitors are greeted by the original sketch for Whose Museum’s window sign, produced when KRETS gallery extended the invitation to Whose Museum to host a year of exhibitions in Malmö in 2019, which led to the collective taking over the space.

The furniture from Whose Museum’s gallery space, used during all of the exhibitions in the past five years and redesigned by various artists in the process, is now transformed into a sculptural installation. It holds stink bombs by artist Alanna Lynch, whose work Hauntings of the Spoils was made for one of the first exhibitions in 2019. This work and other remnants from the gallery have found their way into the sculpture as traces of collective experience.

Copies of donation forms from Whose Museum’s early years cover an entire wall, overlaid with paintings depicting parts of the collection. Whose Museum Still Life, a painting of the Orca, Pichu and Camel figurines, was commissioned from the artist Monique Motut-Firth in 2010. At various events over the years, participants have interpreted collection items in drawings and paintings, also adding them to the museum.

You can still visit the exhibition at Celsius Projects this Saturday and Sunday between 13:00 and 16:00.

This Saturday at 20:00, the drag noise band EVACUATION ENSEMBLE will perform “the exit cleaning”, an exclusive and final...
05/09/2024

This Saturday at 20:00, the drag noise band EVACUATION ENSEMBLE will perform “the exit cleaning”, an exclusive and final symphony! Whose Museum associates Judy Greta Moore, Aimé Dabbadie, Casey Bettridge, VI-X and La Sosi set the stage for our vacuum cleaner and cleaning supplies to sing and shine.





Come eat with us!WHOSE MUSEUM and Konstitori invite you to a feast with artists Sahar Alkhateeb and Patrick Cruz on Wedn...
02/09/2024

Come eat with us!

WHOSE MUSEUM and Konstitori invite you to a feast with artists Sahar Alkhateeb and Patrick Cruz on Wednesday September 4th from 18:00-20:00.

Both artists have been associates of WHOSE MUSEUM, and now return to the gallery to host a Kitchen Codex event together as part of the retrospective WHOSE MUSEUM: WAS HERE that is held at multiple venues across town.

Kitchen Codex is a collaborative social sculpture and communal performance by Patrick Cruz for which participants from the local community are asked to donate a personal recipe in any language in exchange for a meal at this event prepared and served by both artists. While Cruz prepares a Filipino meal, Alkhateeb contributes the dessert. Using food as a vessel for sharing knowledge and as a means to view and reflect on personal and collective histories, the event aims to bridge the ritual of communal eating and sharing cultural awareness through the digestion of history and the joint solidarity of cultural appreciation during times of socio-political divisiveness.

WHOSE MUSEUM invites you to a feast with artists Sahar Alkhateeb and Patrick Cruz!Both artists have been associates of t...
01/09/2024

WHOSE MUSEUM invites you to a feast with artists Sahar Alkhateeb and Patrick Cruz!

Both artists have been associates of the international art collective, WHOSE MUSEUM, and now return to the gallery to host a Kitchen Codex event together as part of the retrospective WHOSE MUSEUM: WAS HERE that is held at multiple venues across town.

Kitchen Codex is a collaborative social sculpture and communal performance by Patrick Cruz for which participants from the local community are asked to donate a personal recipe in any language in exchange for a meal at this event prepared and served by both artists. While Cruz prepares a Filipino meal, Alkhateeb contributes the dessert. Using food as a vessel for sharing knowledge and as a means to view and reflect on personal and collective histories, the event aims to bridge the ritual of communal eating and sharing cultural awareness through the digestion of history and the joint solidarity of cultural appreciation during times of socio-political divisiveness.

Come eat with us!


The event is a collaboration between WHOSE MUSEUM and KONSTITORI.

Artist bios
Sahar Alkhateeb is a Malmö-based artist who holds an MFA degree from Konstfack, Stockholm, and a BA in Contemporary Art from the International Academy of Art in Ramallah, Palestine. Alkhateeb’s practice often relates to topics such as home, memory, identity and specific locations. They have shown their work at various institutions including Malmö Art Museum, Skånes konstförening, Tensta konsthall, Dunkers kulturhus and Uppsala Art Museum.

Patrick Cruz (b. 1987, Quezon City, Philippines) lives and works in Canada and is an Assistant Professor in Studio Art at the University of Toronto’s Scarborough and Daniels campuses. Cruz studied painting at the University of the Philippines Diliman and has an MFA from the University of Guelph, a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and a certificate in Pochinko clowning. His practice is informed by the intersections of folk spirituality, diasporic experience and the role of play within clownhood.

Come see the exhibition Whose Museum: Was Here at Celsius Projects. Open today and tomorrow from 13:00-16:00Welcome!Imag...
31/08/2024

Come see the exhibition Whose Museum: Was Here at Celsius Projects. Open today and tomorrow from 13:00-16:00

Welcome!

Images: Lena Bergendahl

Tomorrow, 25 August 13.00-18.00!DESEO FLASH DAY X WHOSE MUSEUM:WAS HEREAs part of the Whose Museum retrospective bash, D...
24/08/2024

Tomorrow, 25 August 13.00-18.00!

DESEO FLASH DAY X WHOSE MUSEUM:WAS HERE

As part of the Whose Museum retrospective bash, Deseo tattoo artists Tere, Alex and Lino will host a special flash day with custom flash sheets based on Whose Museum's collection of items. Selected works on paper from the collection will also be on display during the Flash Day and until September 8th.

Come and get your very own piece of Whose Museum to keep forever!
20% of profits will be donated towards e-sims to keep Gaza connected

Come join us for a talk with one of Whose Museum's associate Alanna Lynch!🗝️🗝️🗝️ Smells of Resistance: Artist presentati...
23/08/2024

Come join us for a talk with one of Whose Museum's associate Alanna Lynch!

🗝️🗝️🗝️ Smells of Resistance: Artist presentation and talk with Alanna Lynch
August 24, 2024, 13.00
At Skånes konstförening 🗝️🗝️🗝️

Skånes konstförening hosts an artist talk by Alanna Lynch as part of the exhibition WHOSE MUSEUM: WAS HERE (August 23 – September 28, 2024). The international art collective and loose archival network WHOSE MUSEUM presents its first retrospective in Sweden across multiple venues in Malmö, such as Celsius Projects, Moderna Museet Malmö, Deseo Tattoo Studio, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö stadsarkiv and BienVélo.

Smells can be potent atmospheric vectors that trigger memories and emotions. Alanna Lynch will talk about her research practice around smell, in relation the stink bombs in the Whose Museum collection as well as about more recent work. She will touch on what makes things stinky, why we perceive them as smelling bad, as well as issues around consent, communication, empowerment, toxicity and violence.

Coffee and fika will be served.

Image: Gut Feelings, performance 2017. Photo: (c) www.tim-deussen.de

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Sunday 12:00 - 17:00

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