How
can the critique of the museum have consequences in the museum?
Institutions for a different
future
The museum is dead. Long live the museum. This, or something similar, could be
the brief summary of numerous conferences, debates, and publications in the field of curating and museum studies over the
past 20 years. The critique of the museum has been widely discussed. We have heard a lot about crisis and departure, we have
heard about “tired museums” and the “end of the museum”, only to debate in that same breath untapped possibilities for thinking
about the museum in new and different ways–as a space of assembly and as a contact zone, as a place of criticism, polyphony,
and negotiation.
Something seems to be on the move, and so it is not
surprising that talk of the “museum of the future” is booming. Claims of diversification, digitalization, and democratization
have become ubiquitous, while at the same time institutions are more than ever focused on privatization, economization, competition,
and precarization. How can we as critical curators and museologists think and act within these contradictions? And how can
critical theory become critical practice?
Program
9.30–10am
Arrival
and registration
10am–1pm
Welcome and opening by Gerald Bast (Dean, University of Applied
Arts Vienna)
How can critical theory become critical practice?, introduction by Nora Sternfeld (Professor,
HFBK Hamburg, co-director /ecm)
moderated by Beatrice Jaschke (Museum advisor, purpurkultur, Vienna, co-director
/ecm)
Panel 1
Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock (Curator, researcher, Savvy Contemporary,
Berlin)
Charles Esche (Director, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven)
moderated by Monika Sommer (Director, House
of Austrian History, Vienna, co-director /ecm)
Panel 2
Maria Hlavajova (Director, BAK,
basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht)
Andreja Hribernik (Director, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška –
KGLU, Designated director Kunsthaus Graz)
moderated by Luisa Ziaja (Curator, Belvedere Vienna, co-director /ecm)
Panel
3
Matthias Beitl (Director, Volkskundemuseum Vienna)
Duygu Örs (Education and Outreach, Berlin Biennale
and KW Institute for Contemporary Art)
moderated by Renate Höllwart (Art educator, trafo.K, Vienna, co-director
/ecm)
1–2pm
Lunch Break
2–4.30pm
Workshops in six
different groups led by
Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock (accompanied by Nora Sternfeld)
Matthias Beitl (accompanied
by Christine Haupt-Stummer)
Charles Esche (accompanied by Monika Sommer)
Maria Hlavajova (accompanied
by Beatrice Jaschke)
Andreja Hribernik (accompanied by Luisa Ziaja)
Duygu Örs (accompanied by Renate Höllwart)
5–6.30pm
Concluding
Assembly
moderated by Martina Griesser-Stermscheg (Head of the Research Institute, Vienna Museum of Science and
Technology, co-director /ecm), Christine Haupt-Stummer (Part of curatorial collective section.a, Vienna, co-director /ecm)
and Nora Sternfeld
Graphic recording by Aldo Giannotti (Artist, Vienna) and Carlos Toledo (Artist,
graphic designer, Vienna)
7–9pm
Reception / Empfang: 20 Jahre /ecm
Begrüßende
Worte von Barbara Putz-Plecko (Vize-Rektorin, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien)
Zusammen Handeln. Über
einige Konjunkturen der Ausstellungstheorie und -praxis, Joachim Baur (Professor, TU Dortmund und Kurator, Die Exponauten,
Berlin)
Vorstellung 20 Jahre /ecm und Master Thesis Onlinearchiv, Renate Höllwart (/ecm-Leitungsteam)
moderiert
von Beatrice Jaschke (/ecm-Leitungsteam)
Ausklang mit Buffet und Musik
Important:
if you register for the Conference please also mention the preference for the workshop that you would like to take part in.