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This non-profit venture promises something rather more radical. [...] Mousawi and Sakhai set up the Moving Museum last year as a community interest company. Any profits generated by the young trailblazers must subsequently be “used for the public good”, according to government guidelines... The exhibitions benefit the diverse communities linked to each city stint, with education outreach programmes, workshops and performances forming part of the package.

- The Duo Behind The Moving Museum, Gareth Harris

The brainchild of Sakhai and Mousawi, both 26, the Moving Museum is a new kind of organisation that blurs the boundary between a commercial gallery and a public institution. It doesn't represent artists but produces exhibitions alongside major art fairs and funds its not-for-profit activity by selling works

- In the frame: A new generation of gallerists is making its mark on a changing art world. 

20-some-things Sakhai and Mousawi already had impressive art-world résumés. Together, the pair found themselves equally fascinated by two cultural trends: first, the vogue for pop-up projects, whether shops, galleries or food trucks, and the second, the rise of fairs and biennials, which have elbowed aside brick-and-mortar galleries and museums to take center stage on the art circuit. 

- A Museum for the New Millennium, Mark Ellwood

Back in the real world, they also host a nomadic programme of contemporary art shows — in London, New York, Dubai and Istanbul, with Los Angeles next in their sights... The duo are part art gurus, part production managers, as happy debating conceptual intricacies as they are rattling off the square footage of each of their projects.

- New exhibitionists: Meet the London curators reinventing the way we consume art.

De corazón te digo que el proyecto The Moving Muse- um en Estambul será espectacu- lar. Estamos llevando a 50 de los artistas más importantes del mundo a Estambul por tres me- ses, organizando un programa público con ellos, un programa digital que pretende atraer al público internacional, y una en un espacio de más de 9,000 metros cuadrados. 

- Young And Mighty, Por Guillermo de Zamacona

Simon Sakhai and Aya Mousawi join the Art Basel Cities team in Buenos Aires to help develop its catered programming and initiate a new model for large-scale public engagement with the arts. 

- The Moving Museum x Art Basel Cities

Contemporary art is often what occupies spaces after commerce has departed, or is yet to arrive [...] The ambitiousness of the The Moving Museum’s programme is staggering. The artist roster reads as a who’s who of internationally mobile bright young things, largely associated with Post-internet art.

- The Moving Museum, Jonathan Watts

Founders of Moving Museum Join Art Basel Cities as Consultants, Putting Their Roving Exhibition Project on Hold. [...] The pivot put to an end a nomadic endeavor that was started in 2012. [...] And at some point in the future, the Moving Museum could return to its model of bringing museum-scale exhibitions to different cities.

Together the two founded the Moving Museum, which is based on the belief that a modern art institution can exhibit anything, anywhere—including online. [...] They began the project just three years ago, and in the short space since they have staged pop-up projects in Dubai, London, and Istanbul. Each show asked an invited group of artists to produce work in response to their local surroundings. 

‘Art is a moving target and the Moving Museum is an intervention.’ The idealistic duo behind the Moving Museum combine local and international markets for a completely new kind of show. The name on the lips of anyone in the art world interested in life beyond the market is the Moving Museum. Its first exhibition, held at the same time as last May’s Art Dubai, surely the most unlikely place to launch a not-for-profit “alternative model to support contemporary art practice”, was a surprise hit.

Carried by the two antithetical words of its name, the Moving Museum has, from the moment it was launched by Aya Mousawi and Simon Sakhai in 2013, set out to challenge the art world’s die-hard categories. It’s an “institution” without a collection, without a building, one that doesn’t hesitate to sell artworks if it means more artists can be supported. 

The Moving Museum is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: an artistic institution that is perpetually on the go. Founded by Aya Mousawi and Simon Sakhai, it launched in May 2013 with a show in Dubai. [...] As part of the museum’s continuing effort to “respond to a city through artistic practice,” the duo has now headed to Istanbul, both for its bubbling political energy and its geographic and cultural location on the boundary between east and west.

“What if there was a moving museum?” This question, posed by Aya Mousawi and Simon Sakhai on a road trip from Berlin to Kassel for dOCUMENTA 13 in 2012, was the impetus that led them to set up the not-for-profit organization The Moving Museum. With exhibitions in Dubai and London last year, the young pair have now turned their sights to Istanbul, setting up a residency programme that runs from August until the end of October, encouraging participating artists to create a dialogue with the local culture.

It was their most recent exhibition in Istanbul in 2014 that cemented The Moving Museum’s reputation as a light-footed heavy weight in the art world, a new-generation art institution for an increasingly global audience. […] A renowned institution with no fixed abode, a heroic community effort that climaxes then dismantles itself.