The Ministry of Culture & Tourism

There’s one more week to see Jasmine Murrell’s exhibition, “House of Joy”! Swing by this weekend to catch this show before it closes. Open Saturday & Sunday, 12 - 4PM. Hope to see you there 🌱

See Jasmine Murrell's Emergency Grant-supported exhibition, 'The House of Joy,' at The Ministry of Culture & Tourism in Columbus, OH, on view through December 3.

Via The Ministry of Culture & Tourism:

"The site-specific installation will present two newly produced bodies of work investigating how joy can be experienced within specific contexts involving labor, mortality, and the lifecycle of all living things. Using organic materials, photography, and building materials, The House of Joy is the first iteration of the project that ultimately hopes to celebrate the emancipatory potential of joy within unexpected and mundane spaces in the shadow of a promised but unrealized American Dream."

This Saturday, November 20, there will be a virtual performance and interview between Poet Laureate Semaj Brown and exhibiting artist Jasmine Murrell.

Learn more and reserve a free ticket for the virtual performance: https://ministryofcultureandtourism.com/houseofjoy/

📸: Courtesy of The Ministry of Culture & Tourism



[Image Description: Installation view of 'The House of Joy' in a gallery space with white walls and a grey, concrete floor. There are two metallic mirrored sharp-edged sculptures on the ground, and one suspended from the ceiling. Many plants in plastic pots hang from the ceiling, and a few photographs are displayed on the walls.]

More select 📸 from our current show, “The House of Joy”

Some select 📸 from our current show ❤️ 🪴

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😍😍😍 Some gorgeous detail shots 📸 from our current exhibition, "The House of Joy" by Jasmine Murrell. Email the gallery to set up a viewing appt. this week, or come by Friday 2-6, Sat/Sun 12-4.

Thank you to all who came out for the opening of Jasmine Murrell’s “The House of Joy” stay tuned for upcoming free public programming 🌾💐🌷🌻

House of Joy
Jasmine Murrell
Opening this Saturday, Oct 15
7-9pm

This Saturday, Sept 10 from 6-8pm join us for the closing reception and catalogue publication launch for “A Healthy Dose of Nihilism”
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The gallery is excited to showcase recent work by Bradley Weyandt (b. 1989, Greensburg, PA) in our current show, “A Healthy Dose of Nihilism”
🚦🚥Closing reception & Publication launch Saturday 6-8pm🚥🚦

Bradley received his BFA from Edinboro University in 2016 in Sculpture and received his MFA from the Ohio State University in Sculpture in 2022. Weyandt has exhibited regionally, including at the ROY G BIV Gallery, in Columbus, OH; SPACE Gallery, in Pittsburgh, PA; The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, in Greensburg, PA; The Erie Art Museum in Erie, PA; and 937 Gallery, in Pittsburgh, PA. He lives and works in Columbus, OH.

📣💥📣💥Excited to invite you to our Closing Reception and Exhibition Publication 📕 launch for "A Healthy Dose of Nihilism" on Sept 10 from 6-8pm🚬 ⛓
Limited number of free/PWYC catalogues available. Homemade refreshments will be served. New gallery curator Rico (3rd pic) will be in attendance.
Featuring: Austin James Brady (), Alexis E Mabry (.e.mabry), Luke Murphy (), Maggie Myers (), Anoushé Shojae-Chaghorvand (@.shojae.chaghorvand), Cameron Spratley (), and Bradley Weyandt ().
There’s this pit, but maybe it’s better described as a deeply hollowed-out black hole. It seems like it can just suck light out of the air, this void, or maybe this unknown (the name doesn’t really matter). It’s kind of embedded there, staring back at me (at you). Do you have dreams of stumbling onto the cavernous mouth of a gaping mine shaft in pale moonlight? Don’t stare at the center, It’s almost never-ending. And it's growing. Pretend to ignore it, maybe you don’t really see it (you don’t see it, you feel it), but it’s there; the eyes of the future staring back at us. Today, maybe more than before, the weight of the future feels unimaginable.

Against this unconscionable void, The Ministry of Culture & Tourism is please to present A Healthy Dose of Nihilism featuring seven artistic practices investigating the failed promises of contemporary institutions and ideals. Above their layered dissections into the inequality embedded in many current-day systems, the exhibiting artists also demonstrate the emancipatory potential found within nihilism as the first step towards long-term permanent change. Although incorporating nihilistic imagery and attitudes found within popular culture, the group antithetically offers impassioned and open-ended discussion attempting to combat seemingly unassailable current-day issues that continue to contribute towards the adoption of nihilistic tendencies and/or interest.

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The Ministry is excited to feature new by work Anoushé Shojae-Chaghorvand! Born 1991, Anoushé is a New Jersey based artist who works primarily in kinetic sculpture. She creates spatial cinema in the form of sculptures, installations, and performances that capture the complexity, violence, and absurdity inherent in contemporary culture. She is partially interested in amusement in American culture, and how it runs parallel to tragedy.

Shojae-Chaghorvand’s work encompasses a variety of time based media, initially beginning her artistic practice in performance art, and expanding into kinetic sculpture. In her work Shojae-Chaghorvand has always been drawn to the ephemeral and plays with the notion of liveness. She is drawn to kinetics because of their draw to their own destruction. In a similar vein as performance art’s relationship to the photograph as a death certificate of the moment. She believes kinetic sculpture goes one step beyond performance art. Performance does not have the constant endurance of the machine, and its death is theoretical. The mechanism on the motor shaft will work to be freed from its tether to a non-functioning point. The mechanism wants to die, and it has a stage.

🚬 More smokin' pics from our current group exhibition

"A Healthy Dose of Nihilism" is open today until 4pm!

Documentation by Jacob Holler

Some select pics 📸 from our current show, "A Healthy Dose of Nihilism" up now! We're open this weekend 12-4pm Sat/Sun!

Installation documentation by Jake Holler

So happy to share documentation of our inaugural exhibition, “Enactive Architecture” featuring some incredible artists/people ❤️ 🍓 🤘🏼.
Stay tuned for our next exhibition “a healthy dose of nihilism” opening end of July!

🍓 This week 🍓

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism establishes first bureau in Franklinton The whimsically named new arts space from Toronto transplant Matthew Kyba debuted last week in a former warehouse along an industrial stretch of Harmon Avenue on the city’s West Side