Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum

Malene Vest Hansen, Kristian Handberg (University of Copenhagen)

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Routledge
03 March 2023

The Arts: General & Reference; Museums & museology

Series: Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions

Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum investigates the art museum as a space where the contemporary is staged – in exhibitions, collecting practices, communication, and policies.

Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum traces the art museum back to the postwar era. Including contributions by established and emerging art historians, academics and curators, the book proposes that the art museum is engaged in the contemporary in a double sense: it (re)presents contemporary art, while the contemporary condition itself also has a significant impact on art and the museum that houses it. Presenting a diverse range of international cases of exhibitions and curatorial practices, which hail primarily from Europe and Scandinavia, the essays examine the politics of staging “national”, “international”, and “global” framings of modernism, as well as the new public spaces shaped in digital practices and changing political frameworks. The book investigates both the seminal and the unknown exhibitions and institutions that created contemporary art as we know it today.

Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum provides a historical perspective on the museum of contemporary art. It constitutes a step towards differencing the canon of modernist and contemporary art and a more complex understanding of the politics of curating the contemporary in the art museum, why it will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of museums, curating, exhibitions, and art history.

Edited by: Malene Vest Hansen, Kristian Handberg (University of Copenhagen)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 671g
ISBN: 9781032010540
ISBN 10: 1032010541
Series: Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 03 March 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Malene Vest Hansen is Associate Professor in Art History in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, The University of Copenhagen. Contemporary art and critical curatorial and museum studies are her main research areas. Currently, she is PI of the research project Curating the Contemporary: An Exhibition History of the Museum of Modern Art as a new Bildung institution funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research. Kristian Handberg is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, The University of Copenhagen. He was a postdoc at SMK – National Gallery Denmark with the project Curating the Contemporary (2019-2020). He is coordinator of the research group Modernisms and researches exhibition histories of the postwar era and the contemporary musealization of modernism, currently through the research project Exhibiting Across the Iron Curtain.

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Malene Vest Hansen, Kristian Handberg (University of Copenhagen)

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