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Grace Ndiritu Labour: Birth of a New Museum, shamanic performance inside The Temple, 2021 Nottingham Contemporary, photo credit Scene Photography
Exhibition
Grace Ndiritu Healing the Museum
1 Apr 2023 – 10 Sep 2023
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 09:30 – 17:30
- Wednesday
- 09:30 – 17:30
- Thursday
- 09:30 – 17:30
- Friday
- 09:30 – 17:30
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
individual 15 euro, reduction 12 euro, 19-25 years 2 euro, up to 18 free
Healing The Museum is a mid career-survey looking at Grace Ndiritu’s diverse practice over the last twenty years.
About
This multi-layered exhibition project encompasses performance, film, shamanism, social actions, publications, textile work and collection research. The artist seeks to re-energise the museum space and to make it – and by extension society in general – more ethical. In this remarkable exhibition, Ndiritu will take visitors on a holistic journey through the museum spaces and address themes such as protest, ecology, inclusion and sexuality. The journey ends at an architectural structure designed by the artist, ‘The Temple’. This will house a critical collection display and function as a spiritual space for encounter, transition and healing.
As part of her long-term, on-going project Healing The Museum, which began in 2012, Grace Ndiritu is also currently active as an artist-in-residence at S.M.A.K. In the run up to the construction of a new museum, she is working with the staff and members of the public on ‘A Spiritual Inventory of a 21st Century Museum’. The aim is to reflect upon the interpretation of the future organisation. In conjunction with the exhibition and residency, Motto Books will publish the first monograph dedicated to Grace Ndiritu’s oeuvre.
