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Issue #01 - Collecting Geographies
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Issue #02 - Exhibition Histories
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Issue #03 - The Place of Performance
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Issue #04 - Between the Discursive and the Immersive
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Issue #05 - Curating the Collection
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Issue #06 - The Borders of Europe
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Issue #07 - Lose Yourself!
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Issue #08 - Towards a Museum of Mutuality
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Issue #09 - Modernism in Migration
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Issue #10 - Digital Archives and Collections
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Issue #11 - Addendum
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Issue #11 – The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam at 125 years
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Issue #12 - Notes on Diaspora
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Issue #13 – Museum-ing
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Stedelijk Studies Journal Issue #14 Editorial
by Elize Mazadiego and Daniel Ricardo Quiles
Issue #14 Conversation Placeholder
Willem Sandberg, Chris Engels, and the Midcentury “Birth” of Modern Art in Curaçao
by Stephanie Lebas Huber
Zaritsky/Rusli
by Kerstin Winking
“A loving interest”
by Madelon van Schie
Against the Current
by Juliane Debeusscher
“Een merkwaardig misverstand”
by Janna Schoenberger
Claudio Goulart and His Artistic Critique of the Ideology of Multiculturalism
by Pablo Santa Olalla
Fail Better: SMBA (1993–2016) and the Limits of Institutional Critique
by Jelle Bouwhuis
The Museum Reinvents Attention
by Kader Attia
Looking Through the Lens of Support: Museum-ing Within and Between Institutions
by Alison Burstein
I Came to the Museum…
by Vid Ingelevics
From Museum-going to Museum-ing: Visitors as Creative Agents within the Museum
by Jon Stam
The “Co-llection” – Attempting to Introduce a (Truly) Public Art Collection
by Or Tshuva and Karni Barzilay
Forgotten Worlds: Cultivating Museums Otherwise
by Colin Sterling and Asia Komarova
Dramatizing the Museum
by Anders Thrue Djurslev
Decolonizing the National Museums of Kenya
by Kristina Dziedzic Wright
Can museum be a spring, a forest?
by Yiou Penelope Peng
Stedelijk Studies Journal Issue #13 Editorial
roundtable with Meredith North, Kitty Zijlmans, Anna Maria Pinaka and Charl Landvreugd
Stedelijk Studies Journal Issue #12 Editorial Roundtable
with Charl Landvreugd, Yvette Mutumba, Quinsy Gario and Meredith North
Dreams are made of porcelain (Really, Really)
by Katherina Gorodynska
Museum for the Displaced Interview Transcript
conversation between Yvette Mutumba, Ana Sophie Salazar, Mohammad Golabi, and Leong Min Yu Samantha
Here-and-nowness: Diaspora Tactics as Institutional Strategy at Casa do Povo
by micro-histórias (Pedro Beresin, Mariana Lanari, Marília Loureiro, Alice Noujaim, Pedro Zylbersztajn)
Unlearning Imperialism in the Gallery
by Maria Walsh
Common Grounds
by Filipe Lippe
An Unknown Return
a conversation with Alexander Ugay by Elsbeth Dekker & Robbie Schweiger
A Chorus of Relations: Manthia Diawara’s An Opera of the World
by Anja Isabel Schneider
How to Care for an Act?
by Jessica Gogan
The Aghed and its Displacement Paths as Collecting Practices
by Marianna Hovhannisyan
Can A Museum Be A Dreamtime?
by Ashley Gallant
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam at 125 Years – Editorial
by Yvette Mutumba and Maurice Rummens
After(-)Images: Problematizing Collections of Early Documentary Photography in the Art Museum
by Fabienne Chiang
Space, Movement, and Body: Marlow Moss
by Gülce Özkara
Revisiting Wim Beeren’s European Utopia: Wanderlieder Thirty Years Later
by Joanna Mardal
[Re]collection, [De]collection, and the People Curatorial
by Ali T. As’ad
Exhibiting Surinamese Histories of Art: Curatorial Approaches Towards Diversity
by Oscar Ekkelboom
In All Fairness: An Exploration of Ethical Collaborative Practices
by Najiba Yasmin
From Fiction to Knowledge
by Deiara Kouto and Anne Bielig
Reading as Sculpture: A new layer for the library in ruins
by Mariana Lanari
Internationalist Ambitions and Frustrations
by Marieke van Ekeren
Imagining the Future of Digital Archives and Collections – Editorial
by Vivian van Saaze, Claartje Rasterhoff, and Karen Archey
Innovative Digital Infrastructures: The Issue of Sustainability
An Online Roundtable Discussion
Biases within Digital Repositories: The Getty Research Portal
by Hande Sever
Seep Between the Mortar: Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Digital Media at Tate
by Lucy Bayley
Digital Art Archives in Asia for the Public Domain: A Conversation with Bo Zheng and Lu Pan
by Sjoukje van der Meulen
Imagining the Future of a Complex Mixed-media Work: The Case of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s The Floating Museum
by Gabriella Giannachi
Partnering through Collections in Digital Humanities: Looking at Researchers’ Needs
by Christina Kamposiori
Reimagining the Object Record: SFMOMA’s MediaWiki
by Martina Haidvogl and Layna White
Archives without a Lobby: On the Situation of Institutional Holdings in Galleries and Art Museums
by Philipp Messner
Tropical Fantasia: Towards a New Archivo-Museological Imaginary
by Ana Helena Arévalo
Database Art and Design: Pioneering Strategies in the Arts towards Collecting and Archiving
by Sjoukje van der Meulen
Editor in Chief’s Pick – Engines of Order: A Mechanology of Algorithmic Techniques
by Bernhard Rieder
It Takes More than the Past to Understand and Build the Archive
Artist Contribution by Rosa Menkman
Modernism in Migration – Editorial
By Gregor Langfeld and Tessel M. Bauduin
Exile and Modernism: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections on the Exile of Artists in the 1930s and ’40s
By Sabine Eckmann
Modern Group Portraits in New York Exile: Community and Belonging in the Work of Arthur Kaufmann and Hermann Landshoff
By Burcu Dogramaci
“My old Mother” – Therese Graf in New York: Exile, the Transatlantic Itinerary of a Photographic Portrait, and Strong History “from below”
By Eva-Maria Troelenberg
A New Woman’s Exile in Buenos Aires: Grete Stern’s Photomontages between Feminism and Popular Culture
By Christina Wieder
“École de Paris” In and Out of Paris (1928–1930): A Transregional Perspective on the Exhibitions of the “School of Paris” in Venice, Cambridge, Recife, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro
By Annabel Ruckdeschel
From São Paulo to Paris and Back Again: Tarsila do Amaral
By Camila Maroja
Cubism in Iran: Jalil Ziapour and the Fighting Rooster Association
By Katrin Nahidi
Art and Artists Crossing Borders: Untold Stories of the First Iraqi Art Exhibition in the USSR
By Olga Nefedova
“Primitivism” in Migration: Ambivalence and Locality in South African Modernism
By Lisa Hörstmann
A Transnational Socialist Solidarity: Chittaprosad’s Prague Connection
By Simone Wille
Towards a Museum of Mutuality – Editorial
By Vasiliki (Vasso) Belia, Rosemarie Buikema, Margriet Schavemaker, Emilie Sitzia and Rosa Wevers
Understanding Audience Participation Through Positionality: Agency, Authority, and Urgency
By Lorna Cruickshanks and Merel van der Vaart
Changing the Game: Museum Research and the Politics of Inclusivity
By Margriet Schavemaker
Photography and Museums of Mutuality: A Metaphor
By Elisavet Kalpaxi
Considering Competing Values in Art Museum Exhibition Curation
By Pat Villeneuve
Decolonial Aesthesis and the Museum: An Interview with Rolando Vázquez Melken
By Rosa Wevers
Temporality and Universalism in the Contemporary Ethnographic Museum: Two Collection Presentations at the Tropenmuseum
By Luuk Vulkers
Dancing at the Museum: Parataxis and the Politics of Proximity in Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s “APESHIT”
By Liedeke Plate
Towards Mutuality in International Museum Cooperation: Reflections on a Swiss-Ugandan Cooperative Museum Project
By Thomas Laely, Marc Meyer, Amon Mugume and Raphael Schwere
Welkom Today: On Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Photography
By Anne Ruygt
Lose Yourself – Editorial
By Margriet Schavemaker and Dorine de Bruijne
The Labyrinthine Exhibition: A New Genre
By Reesa Greenberg
The Labyrinth as an Exhibitionary Model: Form, Event, and Mode of Life
By Noit Banai
Invisible Mazes—Visible Perceptions
By Pamela Bianchi
Ludic Labyrinths: Strategies of Disruption
By Paula Burleigh
Ludic Exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum: Die Welt als Labyrinth, Bewogen Beweging, and Dylaby
By Janna Schoenberger
Niki de Saint Phalle Playing with the Feminine in the Male Factory: HON – en katedral
By Annika Öhrner
George Maciunas and the Flux-Labyrinth (1974/1976): Staging a SoHo Way of Life
By Anton Pereira Rodriguez and Wouter Davidts
In the Labyrinth of the Contemporary Condition: The Labyrinthine as Curatorial Topos of Postwar Modern in the German Art World Between 1945 and 1968
By Kristian Handberg
Within a Labyrinth of Gazes: Exhibiting Christoph Schlingensief
By Janneke Schoene
Labyrinth and Rhizome: On the Work of Walid Raad
By Christoph Chwatal
On “On Otto”: Moving Images and the New Collectivity
By Ina Blom
The Labyrinth: Metaphor and Method
By Paula Alaszkiewicz
Video: Hans Ulrich Obrist
At the Symposium Lose Yourself!
Video: Hou Hanru
At the Symposium Lose Yourself!
Video: Raqs Media Collective
At the Symposium Lose Yourself!
The Borders of Europe – Editorial
By Sjoukje van der Meulen and Nathalie Zonnenberg
The Borders of Europe: A Roundtable Discussion
With Yoeri Albrecht, Valentijn Byvanck, Hedwig Fijen and Steven ten Thije
Whatever Happened to Ground Euro? The Borders of Brussels
By Bert de Muynck
Representing Migration in Inclusive Museums: The Humanity House
By Inge Zlatkou
Simple as ABC #2: Keep Calm & Validate
By Thomas Bellinck
Let’s Take Back Control! Of Our Imagination
By Mihnea Mircan and Jonas Staal
The Immigrant Continent
By Esra Akcan
The Political Geographies of Muslim Visibility: Boundaries of Tolerance in the European City
By Luiza Bialasiewicz
Art: Don’t Fence Me In! The Correspondence Principle in European Art
by Antje von Graevenitz
Reenacting the Past: Romanian Art since 1989
By Mirela Tanta
When Crisis Becomes Form: Athens as a Paradigm
By Theophilos Tramboulis and Yorgos Tzirtzilakis
Memories of Europe in the Art From Elsewhere
By Andreas Huyssen
Curating the Collection – Editorial
By Rachel Esner and Fieke Konijn
Curating the Stedelijk Collection: A Roundtable Discussion
A roundtable discussion on the occasion of the current edition of Stedelijk Studies, which centers on the theme of Curating the Collection.
Handle with Care: The influence of New Institutionalism on Collection Displays in Italian Contemporary Art Museums
By Micaela Deiana
Alike, but not the Same: The Reenactment of Lina Bo Bardi’s Display for the São Paulo Museum of Art (1968–2015)
By Sabrina Moura
The Shifting Paradigm in Developing Chinese Contemporary History: Collectors of Contemporary Art and the Dynamic Dialogue between the Private and Public in China
By Raymond Rhone
The Iwalewahaus: Displaying Works of African Modernism
By Nadine Siegert
Looking at the One and Only: The Return of the Single-Work Show
By Johanne Lamoureux, Mélanie Boucher and Marie Fraser
Flattening Hierarchies of Display: The Liberating and Leveling Powers of Objects and Materials
By Judith Spijksma and Ann-Sophie Lehmann
New Exposure: The Arab Image Foundation and the Curatorial
By Daniel Berndt
The Politics of Display
By Michael Neumeister
The Algorithm as Curator: In Search of a Non-Narrated Collection Presentation
By Manique Hendricks
Temporal Conflicts and the Purification of Hybrids in the 21st-Century Art Museum: Tate, a Case in Point
By Victoria Walsh and Andrew Dewdney
Between the Discursive and the Immersive – Editorial
By Marie Laurberg and Margriet Schavemaker
Discursive versus Immersive: The Museum is the Massage
by Mark Wigley
Visitor Voices Between the Discursive and the Immersive
By Helen Charman
Narrative Theories and Learning in Contemporary Art Museums: A Theoretical Exploration
By Emilie Sitzia
For Whom Do We Write Exhibitions? Towards a Museum as Commons
By Francesco Manacorda
Painting Into A Corner: The Pedagogic Agenda, the Immersive Mediation (and the Overdetermined Experience) of ‘Play Van Abbe 4’
By Angela Bartholomew
In the Making, of Objects, Artists, and Publics
By Sarah Ganz Blythe
To Touch and Be Touched
By Saara Hacklin
A Thought Never Unfolds in One Straight Line
By Christel Vesters
What’s in a Name? Questions for a New Monument
By Margrethe Troensegaard
Curating Education, Staging the CV: Learning at Former West
By Barbara Mahlknecht
Redistributing Knowledge and Practice in the Art Museum
By Victoria Walsh
Black Mountain and Beyond – Research Practices between Universities and Museums
By Annette Jael Lehmann and Anna-Lena Werner
Vestiges of 125,660 Specimens of Natural History
By Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin
The Place of Performance – Editorial
By Sophie Berrebi and Hendrik Folkerts
Uncounted
Artist Contribution by Emily Roysdon
The Troubles with Temporality
By Bojana Kunst
Transvestite Museum of Peru
By Giuseppe Campuzano
A Mode Of Translation: Joan Jonas’s Performance Installations
By Robin Kathleen Williams
The Ocaña We Deserve
By Paul B. Preciado
Performative Interactions with the Past
By Katalin Cseh-Varga
A Broadcast / Looping Pieces
Aritst Contribution by Tim Etchells
Traces and Documents as Medial Transformations, or: How to Access Performance Art History
By Barbara Büscher
Icons of the Performance Still
By Sarah Happersberger
‘Individual Mythologist’: Vulnerability, Generosity, and Relationality in Ulay’s Self-Imaging
By Amelia Jones
Play and the Profane
By Massa Lemu
Pathways in Performance (in and around Cambodia)?
By Roger Nelson
The Bureau of Melodramatic Research
Artist Contribution by The Bureau of Melodramatic Research
Delegating (community) action: Stuart Brisley’s Peterlee Project
By Neylan Bağcıoğlu
“Frame Me”: Speaking Out of Turn and Lorraine O’Grady’s Alien Avant-Garde
By Stephanie Sparling Williams
Putting out the chairs
By Joe Kelleher
What a body can do
By Kirsten Maar
Typo: Images = represented FORM
Artist Contribution by Zhana Ivanova
Rewriting or Reaffirming the Canon? Critical Readings of Exhibition History – Editorial
By Linda Boersma and Patrick Van Rossem
Colab Again
By Francesco Spampinato
Exhibition History and the Institution as a Medium
By Stefano Collicelli Cagol
Good (graphic) design
By Clemence Imbert
Documenting the Marvelous: The Risks and Rewards of Relying on Installation Photographs in the Writing of Exhibition History
By Madeleine Kennedy
Blinking brains, corporate spectacle, and the Atom Man
By Flora Lysen
Reconstructing Cold War Cultural Diplomacy Exhibitions
By Jennifer McComas
Modes of Making Art History
By Maria Bremer
Editorial Stedelijk Studies: Topical, Urgent, High-Quality
By Margriet Schavemaker
Collecting Geographies: Global Programming and Museums of Modern Art – Editorial
By Jelle Bouwhuis and Christel Vesters
Recalcitrant Geographies: National Claims, Transnationalism, and the Institutionalization of Contemporary Art
By Kitty Zijlmans
Peace, the Museum, and Globalization, 1800/2014
By Todd Porterfield
Creating Ancestors and Affinities: A Rhetorical Analysis of African Art in the Story of Modern Art
By Nana Leigh
Revisiting Magiciens de la terre
By Annie Cohen-Solal
Between the Global, National, and Peripheral: The Case of Art Museums in Poland
By Karolina Golinowska
Curatorial Expeditions: The Ramallah Safari
By Tina Sherwell
Museum Practices and Migrating Modernity: A Perspective from the South
By Celeste Ianniciello and Michaela Quadraro
Statues also die, even… Time and Agency of Museum Display
By María Íñigo Clavo
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