Measuring the World

Collecting, preserving, researching, exhibiting: all museums are based on these four cornerstones. This catalog explores the museum as such and in do doing engages with these four principles of order. How does contemporary art create orders? How does it develop systematic structures? How does it generate an ordered image of the world? In this richly illustrated catalogue, authors and curators seek out answers to these questions and in so doing explore the human drive to create order, to systematize, and to survey our world.