Du 13.02.26
Au 19.04.26
In September 1991, Jan Bucquoy was a man overwhelmed. Women were emancipating themselves—becoming business leaders, politicians, lawyers… increasingly powerful. He felt his world beginning to crumble. To preserve a trace of it, he created the “Museum of Woman,” by “freezing the image of her as we [men] invented her.”
As a proper and dutiful museum curator, this act allowed him, in one final surge of authority, to collect, catalogue, number, and measure woman—turning her into an object of study according to the strict phallo-scientific methodology still in force at the time.
Through the exhibition of photographs and archives from the 1991 show, Atelier 34zero Muzeum invites you to (re)discover Jan Bucquoy’s Museum of Woman, a notorious action of its time, in which 14 performers exhibited themselves, each representing a “family” of woman—thus parodying the theories of Buffon, Lamarck, and Darwin, whose ideas continue to permeate some of the most fallacious assumptions. Although it may appear retrograde at first glance, the Museum offers a sharp critique of masculinism (thought to have disappeared?) and of the museum as an institution that perpetuates power.
