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Monanism: MONA, Hobart (Co-curator Olivier Varenne)

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1 January 2011
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  • Monanism11
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  • Monanism10
  • Monanism13
  • Monanism17
  • China China Bust 82 2004
  • Monanism18
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  • Monanism16
  • Monanism19
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  • Monanism21
  • Monanism24
  • Monanism22
  • Monanism14
  • Monanism23
  • B1 Walkway With Fat Car 2006
  • Monanism Blazy Spiders
  • Monanism Blazy Spirogyres
  • Monanism Blazy Trash Blowers 1
  • Monanism Blazy Fabre Gabel
  • Monanism Blazy Fabreg Gabel
  • Monanism Blazy Peeling Wall
  • Monanism Blazy Trash Blowers 2
  • Monanism Blazy Nature Molle 1
  • Monanism Blazy Nature Molle 2
  • Monanism Blazy Nature Molle 3
  • Monanism Blazy Nature Molle 4
  • Monanism Jeff Gabel And Jan Fabre
  • Cloaca Professional 2010
  • Economical Study On The Skin Of Caracans 2006
  • The Nolan Gallery
  • B1 Walkway With Waffled Concrete Detail
  • B1 Pillar Detail With Surrounding Artworks
  • B1 Walkway
  • B1 Walkway Overlooking The Void
  • Bitfall 2006 2007
  • Bullet Hole 1988 1993 Hall View
  • Coffin Of Ankh Pefy Hery Forefront
  • Corten Stairwell Surrounding Artworks
  • Cylindrical Lift And Spiral Staircase
  • Kiefer Pavilion Entrance
  • The Museum Of Old And New Art2
  • The Courtyard House
  • The Museum Plaza And Courtyard House
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Overview
Monanism, MONA, Hobart (Co-curator Olivier Varenne)

Highlights of the collection at MONA.

  • Mona
  • Radio
  • that Gives Elizabeth the shits
  • that is arguably immoral
  • that your child could have made
  • with really brilliant titles
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Press
  • MONA’s decade of daring and Tasmanian devilry

    Peter Hill , Financial Times, January 27, 2021
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  • Tasmania's Mona gets a major revamp – but will it lure the locals?

    Jenny Valentish, The Guardian, December 30, 2020
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  • Rehung and revamped Mona Museum in Tasmania opens it's doors after nine-month closure

    Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper , December 28, 2020
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  • Meet the Joker: the Australian who is the biggest gambler in the world

    Kate McClymont, The Age, May 17, 2018
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  • How Hobart became a mainlander’s dream

    Gabriella Coslovich, the sydney morning herald, February 27, 2018
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  • Larry's List

    Forbes, October 6, 2016
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  • Unconventional Museum Sparks Tasmanian Renaissance

    Lisa Abend, Newsweek, April 17, 2016
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  • The Modern Medicis

    The Economist, April 4, 2016
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  • If You Think Tasmania Is Just Wilderness and Golf, You're Wrong

    Susan Gough Henly, Afar, April 2, 2016
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  • Rome? I’d rather be in Hobart

    AA Gill, The Sunday Times, November 22, 2015
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  • Interview: maverick museum-owner David Walsh

    Gareth Harris, Financial Times, June 26, 2015
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  • Le musée des extrêmes

    L'Hebdo, June 4, 2014
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  • Wundert euch!

    Neue Zürcher Zeitung, July 13, 2013
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  • The Gambler

    Richard Flanagan, The Monthly, February 1, 2013
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  • Reasons to be cheerful

    David Walsh, Griffith Review, January 4, 2013
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  • Faire les 100 pas dans le Mona dimanche 2 décembre

    Campus Paris, November 12, 2012
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  • IS IT ART — OR EXHIBITIONISM?

    Cristina Ruiz, London Sunday Times, May 6, 2012
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  • Please, Francois Pinault, buy my work.

    Ideat, March 1, 2012
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  • THE SHOCK OF THE OLD AND NEW

    Josh Spero, Spears, March 1, 2012
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  • Magnet Mona

    Geoffrey Eu, Business Times Weekend, December 24, 2011
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  • Un “Disneyland subversif ” en Tasmanie

    Christina Ruiz, Art Newspaper, November 17, 2011
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  • The black swan

    Alexandra Spring, Vogue, June 1, 2011
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  • The cultural cringe subverted

    Julian Glover, The Guardian, April 13, 2011
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  • Globetrotter

    Peter Hill, Art Collector, April 3, 2011
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  • Monanism

    Amelia Groom, Frieze Magazine, April 1, 2011
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  • How to spend it

    Pernilla Holmes, Financial Times, February 20, 2011
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  • Tasmanian devilry

    Gareth Harris, Financial Times, February 4, 2011
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  • Mona

    Christina Ruiz, Courrier International, January 27, 2011
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  • Monanism

    Maria Kunda, Artlink Magazine, January 22, 2011
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  • Museum of Old and New Art

    Independent Collectors, January 4, 2011
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  • Meet David Walsh, the man behind the Museum of Old and New Art

    Mark Rappolt, Art Review, January 1, 2011
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  • Der Sprung com Glucksspiel zum subversiven Disneyland

    David Walsh, Kunstforum, January 1, 2011
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  • Time to stop and reflect

    Kane Young, Mercury, January 1, 2011
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  • Monanism

    Peter Hill, Artlink, January 1, 2011
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  • Art quest remains work in progress

    Tim Martain, Mercury, January 1, 2011
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  • High Priest Amanda Lohrey on David Walsh and Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art

    The Monthly, January 1, 2011
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  • Making a Museum

    Oscar Humphries, Apollo, December 1, 2010
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  • A “subversive Disneyland”

    Christina Ruiz, The Art Newspaper, July 1, 2010
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Publications
  • Monanism

    Monanism

    MONA, Hobart (Co-curator Olivier Varenne) 2011 Read more
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MONA 

 

Olivier Varenne 

c/o Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) 

655 Main Road Berriedale 

Hobart Tasmania 7011 

Australia 

olivier@mona.net.au


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