The Global Challenge of Art Museums II
With the conference Where is Art Contemporary? The Global Challenge of Art Museums II the ZKM is bringing representatives together from museums all over the globe. They have been invited by the ZKM to state the situation as they see it concerning the museum as an art institution today, relating experiences that are often entirely different than those we encounter in this country. Presently many theories exist regarding what a museum of art is, is not, or should be. But normally we are not aware of what the practice of art museums looks like that must operate with an entirely different concept of art, one that is not exclusively western.
Above all, such questions arise with respect to contemporary art, something that would normally only concern us in matters of marketing. By contrast, this conference intends to debate the concept of art following its globalization, which has produced entirely new developments outside western civilization. Not only art museums have been affected by this, but also what were formerly the ethnological museums, which are now being converted into museums of the cultures of the world. Representatives of both museum genres will be meeting together at the conference for the first time. The conference thus aims to help open up a certain ghetto that has resulted from the western experience of art.
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