German Artist Kai Althoff: "and then leave me to the common swifts-" at MoMA

Visual artist & musician Kai Althoff (b. Germany 1966) has an amalgamation of items of nearly everything under the sun but nearly none done by him.   Althoff selected everything & staged the entire exhibit which just opened at the MoMA.  This is an odd assortment of flotsam & jetsam & then some…paintings, ceramics, installations, drawings, fabrics, mannequin, photos & I don't know what else.  The works he chose correspond to other contemporary artists in his lifetime but for the life of me - I don't get it.  What I do get from the show are varied emotional responses of puzzlement, intrigue and curiosity as to the artist's thinking in assembling this show.  Althoff staged the exhibit on white painted plank boards under white tented canvas.  From the oddities of antiquities, mannequins, clothing, photos, collages, installations and subtle & strange sound track the total ambience is one of being in an abandoned antique store/pawn shop that took in everything ad hoc.  Most of the writing was in German & artworks were by German artists.  I was looking to find (unsuccessfully) any works by Althoff.  The word reincarnation was in English.  Perhaps the artist wanted to instill a sense of transition, displacement, or time travel in a dream like fugue.  There were figures sprawled out as in death and other figures more at rest.  The curation by Althoff is noted in a phamphlet placed outside the entrance.  Note the interesting paintings outside the galleries and just to the sides as you walk in as if onto a gangplank with guardrails.  Overall, I was left with a puzzling, playful impression although there were sinister elements.  The small demonic painting with eyes ablazed was glaring.  I favored the ceramic collection in the exhibit.  But, Kai Althoff's combination of varied works flew by without registering any strong desire to return.