1st Edition

Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions

Edited By Natasha Adamou, Michaela Giebelhausen Copyright 2023
242 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions spans exhibition histories as anti-apartheid activism within South African community arts; collectivities and trade unions in Argentina; Civil Rights movements and Black communities in Baltimore; institutional self-critique within the neoliberal museum; reframing feminisms in USA; and revisiting Cold War Modernisms in Eastern Europe among other... Read more

Introduction Reconstructing Exhibitions: Global Perspectives on Art Institutions, Communities, and Activism

Natasha Adamou

 

Part 1. Institutions

  1. When Competition Becomes Form: Exhibition Reconstructions and the Limits of Institutional Self-Critique
  2. David Hodge

  3. Other Primary Structures and the Theatricality of Re-Staging Exhibitions
  4. Kathryn M. Floyd

     

    Part 2. Communities

  5. The "Remembering Exhibitions" of South African Community Arts: Re-appraising the Art of Resistance in (Trans)national Contexts
  6. Ksenia Robbe

  7. The Reflexive Riff: Revisiting Contemporary Negro Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art
  8. Morgan Dowty, Gamynne Guillotte, and Jennifer P. Kingsley

  9. The Making of Tucumán Arde (1968), 1997-2012
  10. Isobel Whitelegg

     

    Part 3. Restaging Modernisms

  11. 15 Polish Painters (MoMA, 1961) Fifty-Five Years Later
  12. Magdalena Moskalewicz

  13. Provenance Research: A New Perspective on Exhibitions from the Past
  14. Lucy Wasensteiner

  15. Copy as Container, Original as Content: "The Making of Modern Art" at the Van Abbemuseum
  16. Milena Tomic

     

    Part 4. Counter-narratives

  17. Reading Between the Lines: Locating the politics of Lucy Lippard’s Six Years
  18. Beth Anne Lauritis

  19. Reconstructing Exhibitions in "Times of Interregnum"

           Natasha Adamou

 

Biography

Natasha Adamou is a senior lecturer in Art History at the BA Culture, Criticism and Curation, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Previously she was a research fellow in Sculpture at the Henry Moore Foundation – British School at Rome (2015–2016), and an early career research fellow in Critical and Historical Studies at Kingston School of Art (2016–2018). Natasha specialises in modern and contemporary art, including exhibition histories, with an emphasis on histories of decolonisation and immigration. Her research focuses on neo-conceptual art and the lives of diasporas in Britain, especially with regard to conceptions of race, diversity, ecology and health.

Michaela Giebelhausen is an independent scholar and associate lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art since 2020. Between 2014 and 2020, Michaela was a course leader at the BA Culture, Criticism and Curation, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and a senior lecturer in Art History at the School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex, until 2014.