Initiated by Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, and the University of Amsterdam, Rakurs is a short cut to a research program that sets out new lines of communication and knowledge sharing through original, conceptual, and collaborative ventures between cultural institutions.
Rakurs is a platform for reinterpreting and dissecting power structures within museum collections and archives. A space for exploring, developing and re-developing concepts, terminology and ideas of historical avant-garde(s) that originated in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. An observation point for looking at the existing museum collections through the lenses of cultural imperialism critique.
Rakurs wants to establish and promote partnerships between art institutions, archives, libraries, and researchers across regional institutions in Europe and Asia that hold collections and literature on the historical avant-garde(s) from Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union at the turn of nineteenth and twentieth centuries paired with contemporary resonance, reflection and critique.
Rakurs aims to gather polyphonic knowledge from diverse angles and make it accessible online. Rakurs offers a digital space for artists, curators, and specialists to stimulate the development of cross-cultural exchange and shared research projects. Rakurs is a machine of ideas.
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