Rooms to Let is an organizer of temporary exhibitions in abandoned buildings in Columbus, Ohio. They take proposals from artists and find empty homes to set up the exhibitions. I absolutely love this concept, and spent many hours thinking and writing about it in Graduate School at Pratt. My thesis was called “Temporary Museum,” with the concept of using abandoned spaces, or vacant retail to mount exhibitions proposed by artists. This concept has never been more important as museums and art institutions continue to lose money and spread their budgets thin. The other great thing about this concept is that it brings art to areas that may not have galleries or museums. Check out the upcoming exhibitions they have planned, and if you’re an artist, propose something.
My good friend and artist Mirelle Zacharias (see article) had artists take over her house in Minneapolis before the bank foreclosed the property and knocked it down. “I would like people to come in and be immersed in sort of an experience within a home, and it is a foreclosed home, and find different ideas happening,” -Mirelle Zacharias.
