Museum of Broken Relationships - A Lot Classier or Artistic Than Posting Naked Pics of Your Ex Online but The Concept is Close Enough

Posted in Bizarre, News, Art and Erotica on October 25, 2007

The Museum of Broken Relationships? Sounds sad, but it is also has lots of bizarre and funny stuff in it as well. “The objects belong to the “Museum of Broken Relationships,” a travelling exhibition that asks people in the cities it visits to donate the mementos of everything from their fleeting infatuations to painful divorces. Originating in Croatia the show has since rolled through Sarajevo, Maribor, and Ljubljana and has now amassed over 200 objects. Zvonimir Dobrovic is organizing the Berlin show in the Tacheles arts center, a six-storey former squat in the heart of the city. “Berliners have already donated 20 new objects” he told SPIEGEL ONLINE, including a wedding dress and an ax used to break up an ex-girlfriend’s furniture.”

Funny how I read the Spiegel Article just soon after writing about posting ex-girlfriend pics online and where amateur porn comes from. The concept here is more artistic and cathartic of course, and not meant as revenge or exhibitionism. The axe is my favorite part.

“One Berliner donated an axe that she used to smash up her ex-girlfriend’s furniture. “The more her room filled up with chopped up furniture, and therefore looked like I was feeling, the better I started to feel.” (Read more) “

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