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.
