After a critically acclaimed two-year international tour starting at Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art (Doha/Qatar) followed by the Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris/France) and the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (Valencia/Spain), Tea with Nefertiti comes full circle and ends its European tour at the new state-of-the-art premises of the State Museum of Egyptian Art (Munich/Germany) under the German title Nofretete - tête-à-tête: Wie Kunst gemacht wird. The exhibition employs the journey of the iconic bust of Nefertiti as metaphor for the mechanisms by which artworks come to acquire a range of meanings, functions and agencies that can embody a number of diverse, and at times conflicting narratives. These narratives can lead to the creation of images of other cultures often coercing artists and artworks into playing the questionable role of cultural ambassadors. Organized along three thematic chapters, the artist, the museum and the public, the exhibition reflects on the process of appropriation that an artwork undergoes starting with the artist's creative process, moving on to the exhibition's modes of presentation and finishing with the collective narratives that are at play in the public sphere.