Robbie Williams
Moco Museum Barcelona
Robbie Williams
Moco Museum Barcelona
Exhibition at the Moco Museum Barcelona
Robbie Williams: Confessions of a Crowded Mind
Robbie Williams: Confessions of a Crowded Mind
Exhibition at the Moco Museum Barcelona
until 20 November 2024
In spring 2024, a Robbie Williams exhibition opened at the Moco Museum Amsterdam. Boris was there and reported on it in a blog article. According to Moco, over 100,000 visitors came to see the music star’s work. His career was characterised by many problems, such as alcoholism, drugs, and depression. He went into therapy and tried to create a pressure valve for himself through the medium of art.
The exhibition at Moco Amsterdam was the first he organised. And now we can also visit him at the Moco Museum Barcelona.
We were finally there and give you an insight!
Robbie Williams
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Exhibition:
Robbie Williams: Confessions of a Crowded Mind
Exhibition at the Moco Museum Barcelona
until 20 November 2024
Opening Hours:
Monday to Thursday: 10.00 a.m. – 8.00 p.m.
Friday to Sunday: 10.00 a.m. – 9.00 p.m.
Prices:
Prices vary depending on the time and day of the week:
12.95 Euro – 15.95 Euro for adults
7,95 Euro – 10,95 Euro for children between 7 and 17 years
Free admission for children under 7
We offer the standard price of 15.95 or 10.95 euros for children.
Occasionally, a little more than on the official site, but you are supporting our work on the site!
The exhibition is small, only three rooms, but somehow nicely done. At first glance, the works are simply colourful, but if you get involved with the sayings, everything takes on a depth. A depth that may not touch everyone. But those who have a connection to depression or something similar will find themselves in the pictures, sayings and statements.
The exhibition starts really colourfully – as if with a bang. The slogans are even more shallow and still kind of positive: ‘Be my Dopamine’, ‘You are fucking amazing’ or ‘Life is one long awkward moment’.
The Exhibition
Robbie Williams: Confessions of a Crowded Mind
In the next room, however, the exhibition is less colourful and more emotional.
The centrepiece is the work “Hello I’m”: in 30 framed works, we find 30 statements about Robbie, which he now shares openly and honestly:
Hello I’m losing my mind
Hello I’m so lovable
Hello I’m having a crisis
Hello I’m googling who you are
Hello I’m thinking of my cat
I bet at least one of the 30 sayings also applies to you. And that makes this work unique. Because there’s something slumbering inside all of us that we might prefer to keep to ourselves. There are also postcards in the room in the same style as the work, with space for a statement about us. That was a great eye-opener for me.
I also saw myself again in other works in this room, or rather I would like to: ‘Waking up is all the ‘going out’ I will be doing today’. I would love to do that one day 😀 (I know it was meant differently.)
The last room is then really just black, grey and white. But even if it’s no longer very colourful – the sayings and the Robbie Williams jokes still are.
My favourite work here consists of two parts – à la “find the mistake”.
In the first, we see a living room with a sofa, table, plants, etc. The slogan & title: “Me hiding”. Good, you think… But then you look at the second work: the same living room, but now Robbie’s head is peeking out from behind the couch: “Me checking to see if anyone is coming to find me”. Funny, and yet so true and sad again in the next thought step…
Even if the exhibition is small – you still get the rest of the museum! The Moco Museum is worth a visit because it is the first contemporary museum in Barcelona that also shows internationally recognised artists. In addition to Robbie, you can meet Dali, Basquiat, Warhol, Koons, Kaws, Banksy, Abramovic and the immersive rooms of Studio Irma!
If, like me, you fancied Robbie Williams as a teenager, you’ll get another intense insight into his world here.
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Text and image rights: © Céline Mülich, 2024
With permission of the Moco Museum