Curatorial Practices of the ‘Global’: Toward a Decolonial Turn in Museums in Berlin and Hamburg?
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In: Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2020, p. 107-138.
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T1 - Curatorial Practices of the ‘Global’
T2 - Toward a Decolonial Turn in Museums in Berlin and Hamburg?
AU - Gaupp, Lisa
AU - Abramjan, Anna
AU - Akinay, Frida Mervecan
AU - Hilgert, Katharina
AU - Mulder, Anna Catharina
AU - Schmidt, Rebecca
AU - Schnitzler, Viviane
AU - Thurich, Ole
AU - Tiemon, Lucas
AU - Wurl, Swantje
AU - Zimmermann, Mira
N1 - ISBN 978-3-8376-4958-1. Titel: Museum - Politics - Management
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Who decides what is included in the contemporary canon of ‘global arts’? This empirical mixed-methods study examines how different notions of the ‘global’ are curated in so-called ‘global’ visual arts in two German museums. Decolonial aesthetics, postcolonial thought, and the provenance of exhibition objects have challenged the legitimacy of German museums and have triggered a debate on their Eurocentric perspective, their situatedness, the differentiation between artefact and artwork, and the reproduction of colonial thinking and patterns of domination. Although a critical turn in current curatorial practice can be observed, it is not clear whether this change is the result of a genuine effort to decolonize art organizations. In this regard, the potentials, restrictions and applications of academic concepts such as “anti-racist” or “postcolonial curating” are discussed. This study found indications of a decolonial turn in a predominantly White European curatorial practice and emphasizes the need for further changes to this context.
AB - Who decides what is included in the contemporary canon of ‘global arts’? This empirical mixed-methods study examines how different notions of the ‘global’ are curated in so-called ‘global’ visual arts in two German museums. Decolonial aesthetics, postcolonial thought, and the provenance of exhibition objects have challenged the legitimacy of German museums and have triggered a debate on their Eurocentric perspective, their situatedness, the differentiation between artefact and artwork, and the reproduction of colonial thinking and patterns of domination. Although a critical turn in current curatorial practice can be observed, it is not clear whether this change is the result of a genuine effort to decolonize art organizations. In this regard, the potentials, restrictions and applications of academic concepts such as “anti-racist” or “postcolonial curating” are discussed. This study found indications of a decolonial turn in a predominantly White European curatorial practice and emphasizes the need for further changes to this context.
KW - Gender and Diversity
KW - diversity
KW - development
KW - transformation
KW - social change
KW - curating
KW - Museum
KW - Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization
KW - Cultural studies
KW - Sociology
UR - https://jcmcp.org/articles/curatorial-practices-of-the-global-toward-a-decolonial-turn-in-museums-in-berlin-and-hamburg/?lang=en
UR - https://www.degruyter.com/transcript/view/journals/zkmm/zkmm-overview.xml?tab_body=toc-79151
U2 - 10.14361/zkmm-2020-0205
DO - 10.14361/zkmm-2020-0205
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 6
SP - 107
EP - 138
JO - Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy
JF - Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy
SN - 2701-8466
IS - 2
ER -