Making a Museum in the 21st Century addresses some of the most pressing issues for museums in a new era of popularity and audience engagement. Over the past decade, spectacular buildings and increased attendance have been accompanied by increased expectations for museums to create new ways for visitors to interact with art. Against a backdrop of large demographic shifts and geopolitical shuffles resulting in rapid museum growth in Asia and the Middle East, museums around the world face new opportunities and challenges. This book brings together the perspectives of prominent museum leaders, directors, curators, architects and artists such as David Adjaye, Melissa Chiu (the Hirshhorn), Adam Lerner (MCA Denver), Glenn Lowry (MoMA), Walid Raad (Cooper Union), Hiroshi Sugimoto and others.

Making a Museum in the 21st Century

Morgan, Jessica

Lowry, Glenn

Deliss, Clémentine

Adjaye, David

SUGIMOTO, Hiroshi

Bharucha, Rustom

Carding, Janet

Collier, Caroline

Lerner, Adam

Makariou, Sophie

Nasar, Hammad

Nittve, Lars

Ning, Ou

Raad, Walid

Chunchen, Wang

Reference

Asia Society

Seven stories about modern art in africa

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Whitechapel

On the Pulse of the Museum as Institution of the Future For quite some time now, ethnographic museums in Europe have been compelled to legitimate themselves. Their exhibition-making has become a topic of discussion, as has the contentious history of their collections, which have come about through colonial appropriation. Clearly, this cannot continue. That the situation can be different is something that Clémentine Deliss explores in her current publication. She offers an intriguing mix of autobiographically-informed novel and conceptual thesis on contemporary art and anthropology. Reflections on her own work while she was Director of Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum (Museum of World Cultures) are interwoven with the explorations of influential filmmakers, artists and writers. She introduces the Metabolic Museum as an interventionist laboratory for remediating ethnographic collections for future generations. CLÉMENTINE DELISS has achieved international renown as a curator, cultural historian and publisher of artist's books. In her role as Director of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, as a curator, and as a professor and researcher at eminent institutes and academies, she focuses on transdisciplinary and transcultural exchanges. She is Associate Curator of KW Berlin and Guest Professor at the Academy of Arts, Hamburg.

The Metabolic Museum

Hatje Cantz/KW Institute for Contemporary Art

From the author of The Metabolic Museum, a new volume on the risks associated with a career in art, from individual pieces to historic museum collectionsBuilding upon the acclaimed fieldwork diary The Metabolic Museum, Clémentine Deliss expands on how artists understand risk and contention both in their work and with regard to historical collections. Skin in the Game is a series of compelling conversations with Ruth Buchanan, Otobong Nkanga, Collier Schorr, Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Andrea Zittel. These five women are the subject of the eponymous exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Their conversations raise questions about how to work through institutional collections through the concept of the "prototype" creating a multiplicity of nonexclusive interpretations. They also discuss that moment of having "skin in the game," when each of them decided to become an artist, and what the "prototype" was that defined their career trajectory. Clémentine Deliss (born 1960) is a London-based curator, researcher and author. In 2020 she was named an associate curator at the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin.

Skin in the Game: Conversations on Risk and Contention (Hatje Cantz Text)

Hatje Cantz

El museo metabólico

Caniche Editorial

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