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Under lock and key?

On dealing with Nazi art in museums

23.03. - 25.03.2022

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Date

23.03. - 25.03.2022

Location

Museumsakademie Joanneum

Meeting point

Wien (AT), hybrid

Costs

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

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Please register via e-mail.

 

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+43-664/8017-9537

museumsakademie@museum-joanneum.at

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The legacy of National Socialism is often not visible in museum collections and goes far beyond what is commonly known as ‘looted art’. During the National Socialist era, many museums, through their acquisition policies and art dealings, expanded their collections, which were aligned with Nazi ideology—including art that explicitly conformed with the system and often remained in repositories after 1945. Also in the following decades, and up to this day, items with a Nazi history have found their way into museum collections through a variety of routes. There they are stored, often largely unnoticed and more or less under lock and key. Is that a good thing? The workshop takes this question as its point of departure and wishes to spark a debate on how these kinds of collections can be dealt with today and in the future. This raises a number of fundamental questions: Should these items be deaccessioned or kept in repositories, and should donations be accepted or rejected? In what way would it be possible to present such collections in exhibitions, if at all? How much contextualisation is required, and how difficult is it in terms of design to avoid the problem of aesthetically or emotionally charging the items? By looking at several museums, we would like to consider the responsibility museums have for dealing with the presence of the Nazi era in their collections and discuss the ethical and design challenges involved in showing Nazi art.


In co-operation with Wien Museum.

Keynote von Doron Rabinovici

With
Stefan Benedik Team Leader Public History (Curating, Collecting, Conservation), House of History Austria, Vienna (AT)
Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe Chairwoman of the Situation Kunst Foundation, Bochum (DE)
Wolfgang Brauneis Art historian and curator, Cologne/Berlin (DE)
Matti Bunzl Director Wien Museum, Vienna (AT)
Ute Haug Art historian and provenance researcher, Head of Provenance Research and Collection History, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (DE)
Ingrid Holzschuh Art and architecture historian, Vienna (AT)
Irina Koerdt Exhibition Architect, koerdtutech, Vienna (AT)
Laura Langeder Junior Collection Curator, House of Austrian History, Vienna (AT)
Gerhard Milchram Curator and Provenance Researcher, Wien Museum, Vienna (AT)
Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber Professor of Art History, TU Vienna (AT)
Doron Rabinovici Historian and writer, Vienna (AT)
Almar Seinen Art historian and exhibition maker, Amsterdam (NL)
Sanja Utech Exhibition architect, koerdtutech, Vienna (AT)

 

Organisers of the workshop
Teresa Mocharitsch Researcher, University of Graz (AT)
Eva Tropper Management Team, Museumsakademie Joanneum, Graz (AT)

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