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Decentring the Museum: Contemporary Art Institutions and Colonial Legacies

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By (author): Nina Möntmann

Nina Möntmann's timely book extends the decolonisation debate to the institutions of contemporary art. In a thoughtfully articulated text, illustrated with pertinent examples of best practice, she argues that to play a crucial role within increasingly diverse societies museums and galleries of contemporary art have a responsibility to 'decentre' their institutions, removing from their collections, exhibition policies and infrastructures a deeply embedded Euro-centric cultural focus with roots in the history of colonialism. In this, she argues, they can learn from the example both of anthropological museums (such as the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne), which are engaged in debates about the colonial histories of their collections, about trauma and repair, and of small-scale art spaces (such as La Colonie, Paris, ANO, Institute of Arts and Knowledge, Accra or Savvy Contemporary, Berlin), which have the flexibility, based on informal infrastructures, to initiate different kinds of conversation and collective knowledge production in collaboration with indigenous or local diasporic communities from the Global South.

 For the first time, this book identifies the influence that anthropological museums and small art spaces can exert on museums of contemporary art to initiate a process of decentring.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 130 x 200mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Sep 2023
  • Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781848225503

About Nina Möntmann

Nina Möntmann is Professor of Art Theory at the University of Cologne and curator writer and PI at the Global South Study Center (GSSC) at the University of Cologne. Her previous publications include Kunst als Sozialer Raum and the edited volumes Brave New Work: A Reader on Harun Farockis film 'A New Product Scandalous: A Reader on Art & Ethics New Communities and Art and Its Institutions.

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