
That, for some years now, the Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosity, has been attracting the attention of artists, curators and art historians, may have something to do with its non-hierarchical, encyclopedic approach to the world. Exhibiting side-by-side objects from geology, natural history, archaeology or contemporary art, the Wunderkammer, equating the natural and the man-made, opens up analogical readings unrestrained by modern science categories.