Museum of Thoughtless
The Museum for Thoughtless is a German art project by the artists Martin Kätelhön and Thomas Schneider . The Museum for Thoughtless was founded in 1993. Originally, things were collected that people make in a state of thoughtlessness, such as scribbled phones, bent paper clips or figures made from leftover wax.
The first exhibitions took place in 1995 in the Cologne gallery ON, including the highly regarded presentation “Kaba und Liebe” (from Schiller's Kabale und Liebe ), which dealt with the alienation of Reclam books by schoolchildren. Further exhibitions showed handwritten shopping lists (“Soup green, possibly”) as well as scribbles by members of the Bundestag in the plenary (“Sketches from the German Bundestag”). In 2002 the exhibition “Crucifix and Mousetrap” followed in the Cologne studio dumont (M. DuMont Schauberg), which showed secular finds from Cologne Cathedral .
On the occasion of the “ Leverkusener Kunstnacht” 2005, the Museum for Thoughtless at the Leverkusen Clinic showed the “ Mondamin -Box” collection, which is memorabilia from a Red Cross nurse .
literature
- Kaba and love . Exhibition catalog. In: Reclam Universal Library . 2nd, modified edition. Special tape. Reclam, Stuttgart 2000 (first edition 1999).
- Volker Neuhaus: crucifix and mousetrap . The most amazing found objects from Cologne Cathedral . Ed .: Stephan Brenn. 1st edition. DuMont, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8321-6010-8 .