U.N Emergency Intervention

EMERGENCY ROOM is developed by French-Danish artist Thierry Geoffroy/COLONEL. It is an internationally recognized art format and specially designed space for exhibitions changing every day, where professional artists are stimulated to express and rank the most alarming emergencies of today.

EMERGENCY ROOM is a place where the public and the media meet artists’ intuitive, avant-garde and sharp visions of the world. The hard and ultrafast conditions of constant daily production is generating artistic experiments and new forms of artistic expression.


EMERGENCY ROOM is a laboratory for new types for artistic collaborations across different aesthetic directions, cultural backgrounds and generations.

In EMERGENCY ROOM artists are thermometers for detecting, measuring and giving diagnosis of the dysfunctions in the society. In order important artistic visions to reach a large attentive audience as fast as possible, what artist feel NOW has to be exhibited in real time - before it is too late.

About the format
THE DELAY MUSEUM:

Delay Museum is a selection of the art works, which were once exhibited in the EMERGENCY ROOM. DELAY MUSEUM is today an art collection including works from the last 7 years collected in different EMERGENCY ROOMs like New York, Athens, Paris, Berlin, Hanoi, Napoli, Copenhagen, and Wroclaw. 450 artists are represented in the collection, and their works were shown in real time, expressing for example about homophobia in Russia already in 2011 in Hanoi, financial crises in Greece while Athens was burning in 2007 and Iraq war in 2007 in MoMA PS1.

In the Delay Museum it is possible to experience the aesthetics of emergency. The artworks from the Delay
Museum collection can be organized by the institution curators in different ways and be read through different topics like global war, xenophobia, financial crisis, global warming, Iran- USA relationship, North and South Korea and surveillance society. The works can also be classified by aesthetic methods (for example only work done in collaborations or work only done by abstract painters, expressing in outrage and precise way), geographically and time-based (around specific events, like Arab Spring, financial crises, etc.)