Collecting in connection

Alternative collections in contemporary art institutions

20.10. - 21.10.2022

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Date

20.10. - 21.10.2022

Location

Museumsakademie Joanneum

Meeting point

Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (AT), hybrid

Costs

190 €, reduced fee 140 € (The reduced fee is available to online participants, students, trainees, unemployed people, and employees of this year’s cooperation partners.)

External registration

Please register via e-mail.

Contact us

+43-664/8017-9537

museumsakademie@museum-joanneum.at

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The question of collecting is increasingly becoming the focus of attention once again—in contemporary art museums too. Their realignment as venues where it is possible to reflect on contemporary and future societal challenges also provides alternative opportunities for the practice of collecting as the central aspect of museum work. It seems that “connecting” is rapidly replacing “arranging” as the structuring paradigm of collections. Despite the long-established focus on individual items, the trend today is more and more towards thinking about collections in terms of references and relations. Doing so raises a number of questions. What connections and contexts should also be included in collections? How can historical methods of reception, political contexts, or discursive linkages be made accessible, visible, and capable of still being experienced? How should changing art practices be handled, such as performative, ephemeral, participatory, or collaborative approaches which cannot be collected simply as “objects” but require different approaches to discursivation and actualisation? How are digital and analog museum collections related to other types of knowledge producing storage options such as archives and libraries, and where can synergies between them be found? And to what extent must we rethink our responsible handling of collections in times of overflowing inventories and efforts to conserve resources? “Collecting in connection” therefore seems capable of linking up to different trends, including the one towards a new culture of social participation in collections. We will discuss the notions of opening up and connecting as key factors in a different attitude towards collections and share ideas on innovative approaches to the collecting of contemporary art.

In co-operation with Kunsthaus Graz.

With
Renate Höllwart Art and cultural mediator, schnittpunkt and trafoK, Vienna (AT)
Monika Holzer-Kernbichler Head of Art and Architecture Education, Kunsthaus Graz and Neue Galerie Graz (AT)
Andreja Hribernik Director of Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti, Slovenia (2013-2022) and designated Director Kunsthaus Graz (from 2023), (SLO/AT)
Vera Lauf Research Curator, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig (DE)
Rachel Mader Art historian, Lucerne School of Art and Design (CH)
Teresa Mocharitsch Museum Academy Joanneum, Graz (AT)
Daniel Modl Research Associate Archaeological Museum Schloss Eggenberg, Graz (AT)
Siri Peyer art historian, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Design & Art (CH)
Bojana Piškur writer and senior curator, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (SLO)

Organisers of the workshop
Katrin Bucher Trantow Interim Director and Head Curator, Kunsthaus Graz (AT)
Eva Tropper Management Team, Museumsakademie Joanneum, Graz (AT)

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