Antoni Muntadas
Barcelona, 1942.
Antoni Muntadas critically examines contemporary experience through projects connecting conceptual art, communication media and society.
Artwork in the collection
"Tasman Tiger: case study of the Museum of Extinction" (2022).
About the artwork
The Tasmanian tiger project connects an extinct animal with holography, a technology threatened by obsolescence. Evoking a natural-history museum, the installation includes a large hologram and three display cases containing research documentation, DNA studies and popular-culture objects. Muntadas invites reflection on extinction, memory and the continuing race to replace one technology with another.
Artistic career: Antoni Muntadas
Career and projects
Antoni Muntadas is a pioneer of media and conceptual art. His practice investigates the mechanisms of control and power shaping how we see, and the role of communication media. He works with video, photography, publications, the internet, installations and public interventions, often through collaborative processes. His projects address public and private space, consumption, cultural homogenisation, the architecture of power and fear as an instrument of social control.