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Figure 2. Renzo Martens, Enjoy Poverty, remade neon sign from Episode 3 roaming an Amsterdam canal around the premiere of the film, November 2008. Photo: Jelle Bouwhuis.

Fail Better: SMBA (1993–2016) and the Limits of Institutional Critique

Kader Attia at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam’s Badkuip (Bathtub) Lecture series, given on 21 October 2023. Photo's by Maarten Nauw.

The Museum Reinvents Attention

“Looking Through the Lens of Support”: Museum-ing Within and Between Institutions

Looking Through the Lens of Support: Museum-ing Within and Between Institutions

Figure 11 - Museum guards’ winning shooting team, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1930. Museum reference #: MM2930. Photographer: not recorded

I Came to the Museum…

Figure 9. Installation view of the drawing machines in A Commonplace Book (2018) at House for Contemporary Art, Z33. Photo: Studio Chloki.

From Museum-going to Museum-ing: Visitors as Creative Agents within the Museum

Installation parts from the acclaimed Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, turned into building waste on the day after its closing. Photo credit: Oded Bajayo.

The “Co-llection” – Attempting to Introduce a (Truly) Public Art Collection

Figure 2. The Outsiders Union and the Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills. Photo by Merel Zwarts.

Forgotten Worlds: Cultivating Museums Otherwise

Figure 2. Ferdinand Ahm Krag, Hall of Psychopomps, 2022. Installation view, Museum for fremtiden, Kunsthal Aarhus & Sort/Hvid (2022). Photo by Emilia Therese.

Dramatizing the Museum

Figure 3. Installation view of Who I Am, Who We Are at the Nairobi National Museum. Photograph courtesy of Xavier Verhoest, 2015.

Decolonizing the National Museums of Kenya

Figure 5. The Book of the Ten Thousand Things. Photo © the author.

Can museum be a spring, a forest?

AnnaMaria Pinaka, “untitled” (part of series Thirsty Pig), 2022. Ink and watercolors. Photo by AnnaMaria Pinaka.

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