Prof. Dr. Serge Guilbaut

SCHÖNE-VORTRAG ON MONDAY, 02/11/2015

Prof. Dr. Serge Guilbaut,  Vancouver, talks about:

Museum ad Nauseam? Museums in the Post-Modern Labyrinth

Date: 02/11/2015, 7.00 p.m.
Venue: Room HBS 005, TU Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 16-18, 10623 Berlin

An event of the Richard Schöne Gesellschaft für Museumsgeschichte e.V. with the Chair for Modern Art History at the Technische Universität Berlin and the Forum Kunst und Markt.

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Abstract: I am not against museums; I am not against the concept per se, certainly not against the idea of the museum as a democratic space where cultural histories are presented and debated, where memory and history are dialoguing in order to avoid falling into the myth of unique transcendental culture. No, but what I am against these days, is the utilization of the museum concept for profit, for prestige, and against the museum space as entertainment. I am against the museum as logo or brand, against the museum as architectural wonder easily recognizable on the cityscape but often empty of ideas: against, in other words, the museum as empty sign. This discussion will be about a critical history of modern museums but also an attempt to show how museums can be re-connected with research, to be part of the cultural and political dialogue as research should be integrated with more force in museum exhibitions and should be a way to destabilize certitudes by understanding the way others, at different times, talk, strategize, were read and understood.

Prof. Dr. Serge Guilbaut ist Kurator, Künstler und Professor Emeritus der Kunstgeschichte an der University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Seine Forschungsfelder sind die Kulturgeschichte der Nachkriegszeit, moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst und Kunsttheorie. Zu seinen international bekanntesten Veröffentlichungen zählt How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War (Chicago 1983).

Der Eintritt ist frei, eine Anmeldung nicht erforderlich. Im Anschluss an den Vortrag laden wir zu einem Umtrunk ein.

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