Research Logs, Essays, Conversations tagged with collection practices

Futurist Aleksei Kruchenykh lies in the hands of Mikhail Matyushin and Kazimir Malevich, Saint Petersburg, 1913. Photograph by Karl Bulla.

A Hidden Dedication

On Iliazd’s Poésie de mots inconnus in the Nikolai Khardzhiev Library - essay by Daria Kobzeva

Eileen Gray: Sensuality in Modernist Tubular Steel

Eileen Gray: Sensuality in modernist tubular steel

by Tamara Klopper

Fig. 5. Dino-Lite – Corner, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, April 9, 2024.

Uncovering the Mysteries of the Photography Collection: Robert Lebeck

by Janne van den Bergh in collaboration with Ana Carreres Llopis

Fig. 6: Upper landing of the Stedelijk Museum. Photograph taken by Peter Tijhuis in 2024.

Rethinking collections: from a vitrine in use to a museum object

by Rosemarie Kramer

Made in Harrania?

Made in Harrania?

Let Textiles Talk, Research Logs

by Amanda Pinatih

A square, pale yellow sheet of paper rests on a white surface. A hand appears left of the sheet, as though about to turn it over. The light brown text at the top of the sheet reads: “#2 Learn a poem by heart. Go to a place where you can look through a window and recite it to yourself at the beginning and end of your workday. Repeat for at least 5 days.”

Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen, 12 interventions for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Research Logs, Sketches for the Future

by Danica Pinteric

Inside an empty, patinaed building, two performers are shown on the floor. The performer lies on their back, and the performer on the right is sitting in an upright position, cradling the other performer in their arms.

Michele Rizzo, Rest, 2021

Research Logs, Sketches for the Future

by Danica Pinteric

The artists hand appears holding a blue, slightly transparent audio cassette tape. On the top of the tape on a white label, the work title, “WHAT WE PUT IN THE SKAFTHINI (MIXAPENAYANA)” appears written in all-caps in black marker.

Simnikiwe Buhlungu, What We Put in the Skafthini (Mixtapenyana), 2021

Sketches for the Future

by Danica Pinteric

The police officer examines the inside of her left middle finger. She is wearing a yellow hat with a silver police badge and a turquoise dress. Her fingernails are painted red. Her made-up face is partially covered by another hand, which is out of focus.

Ghita Skali, The Invaders, 2021

Sketches for the Future

by Fabienne Chiang

Sung Tieu, Song Notes For Factories, 2021 From Fiction to Knowledge

Sung Tieu, Song Notes For Factories, 2021

Sketches for the Future

by Fabienne Chiang

Collector Culture of the Russian Avant-Garde

Collector Culture of the avant-garde from Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union

by Frank van Lamoen

Meeting the Collection

Let Textiles Talk, Research Logs

Log #1 by Amanda Pinatih

Journal Articles tagged with collection practices

Space, Movement, and Body: Marlow Moss

Space, Movement, and Body: Marlow Moss

Issue #11 – The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam at 125 years

by Gülce Özkara

[Re]collection, [De]collection, and the People Curatorial Calibrating the preservation of memory and the dialectics of loss in the Palestinian Museum

[Re]collection, [De]collection, and the People Curatorial

Issue #11 – The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam at 125 years

by Ali T. As’ad

Digital Archives and Collections

Imagining the Future of Digital Archives and Collections – Editorial

Issue #10 - Digital Archives and Collections

by Vivian van Saaze, Claartje Rasterhoff, and Karen Archey

Fig. 3. The fire at the Museu Nacional, September 2, 2018. Image credit: Fabio Teixeira/Picture Alliance Via Getty Images.

Tropical Fantasia: Towards a New Archivo-Museological Imaginary

Issue #10 - Digital Archives and Collections

by Ana Helena Arévalo

Towards a Museum of Mutuality

Towards a Museum of Mutuality – Editorial

Issue #08 - Towards a Museum of Mutuality

By Vasiliki (Vasso) Belia, Rosemarie Buikema, Margriet Schavemaker, Emilie Sitzia and Rosa Wevers

Decolonial Aesthesis and the Museum: An Interview with Rolando Vázquez Melken

Issue #08 - Towards a Museum of Mutuality

By Rosa Wevers

The Shifting Paradigm in Developing Chinese Contemporary History: Collectors of Contemporary Art and the Dynamic Dialogue between the Private and Public in China

Issue #05 - Curating the Collection

By Raymond Rhone

The Algorithm as Curator: In Search of a Non-Narrated Collection Presentation

Issue #05 - Curating the Collection

By Manique Hendricks

The Place of Performance

The Place of Performance – Editorial

Issue #03 - The Place of Performance

By Sophie Berrebi and Hendrik Folkerts

Recalcitrant Geographies: National Claims, Transnationalism, and the Institutionalization of Contemporary Art

Issue #01 - Collecting Geographies

By Kitty Zijlmans

Between the Global, National, and Peripheral: The Case of Art Museums in Poland

Issue #01 - Collecting Geographies

By Karolina Golinowska

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