Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family

Overview volume of contemporary art practices examining problems, beliefs and contradictions that the family as an institution embodies

The family is a rare topic in contemporary art. Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family engages with the family as a tradition, idea, and lived reality. The exhibition untangles some of the crucial problems, beliefs, and contradictions that the family as an institution embodies, bringing together works by forty artists-ranging from the mid 1970s to the present, as well as selected works from the collection of the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen-in which notions of family, and representations of the stereotypical, bourgeois family in particular, are problematized.