{"id":10733,"date":"2026-05-04T10:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muca.eu\/?p=10733"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:49:24","slug":"public-preview-the-future-is-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muca.eu\/en\/public-preview-the-future-is-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Preview: The Future Is Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"10733\" class=\"elementor elementor-10733\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c3cae42 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c3cae42\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6a0dcdb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6a0dcdb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>We are pleased to present the <strong>new exhibition \u201eThe Future Is Stupid\u201c<\/strong> to announce - the first major overview exhibition <strong>by the renowned British painter Antony Micallef<\/strong>. The exhibition celebrates more than twenty years of the artist's career and brings together over fifty key works from Micallef's oeuvre as well as an impressive new series of paintings created especially for the museum presentation.<\/p><p>\u201eThe Future Is Stupid\u201c was developed in close collaboration with the artist as part of a one-year <strong>Artist-in-Residence Programme<\/strong>, <strong>sponsored by the MUCA Foundation,<\/strong> developed.<\/p><p>In addition to important paintings, the exhibition will include a selection of rare bronze editions that have been on display at the <strong>Royal Academy<\/strong> were no longer shown publicly in 2008. The exhibition also highlights Micallef's wider creative practice through several significant interdisciplinary projects. These include the impressive animated film for <strong>Peter Gabriels<\/strong> Song <em>Love Will Heal<\/em>, which was organised in cooperation with the <strong>Oscar-winning<\/strong> Aardman Animation Studio.<\/p><p>At <strong>Thursday, 7 May,<\/strong> we cordially invite you to experience the exhibition even before the official launch: From <strong>6 to 8 pm<\/strong> all friends of the MUCA are invited to the public preview, at which Antony Micallef will also be present.<\/p><p><strong>Admission is free or \u201epay as you wish\u201c on a donation basis for the MUCA Foundation.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wir freuen uns, die neue Ausstellung \u201eThe Future Is Stupid\u201c anzuk\u00fcndigen \u2013 die erste gro\u00dfe \u00dcber-blicksausstellung des renommierten britischen Malers Antony Micallef. Die Ausstellung feiert mehr als zwanzig Jahre Karriere des K\u00fcnstlers und vereint \u00fcber f\u00fcnfzig Schl\u00fcsselwerke aus Micallefs Schaffen sowie eine beeindruckende neue Gem\u00e4ldeserie, die speziell f\u00fcr die Museumspr\u00e4sentation geschaffen wurde. \u201eThe Future Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Public Preview: The Future Is Stupid &#187; MUCA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.muca.eu\/en\/public-preview-the-future-is-stupid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Public Preview: The Future Is Stupid &#187; MUCA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wir freuen uns, die neue Ausstellung \u201eThe Future Is Stupid\u201c anzuk\u00fcndigen \u2013 die erste gro\u00dfe \u00dcber-blicksausstellung des renommierten britischen Malers Antony Micallef. 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