What is Rakurs?
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.
What does Rakurs want to achieve?
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 is a machine of ideas.
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.