SMArt Talks: Curatorial Turn in Architecture?
We cordially invite you to another lecture evening from the SMArt Talks series. The lecture titled "Curatorial Turn in Architecture?" will be presented by Helena Huber-Doudová, curator of the Architectural Collection at the National Gallery in Prague. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at 6:00 PM at the Hans Belting Library.
'If modern architecture is an exhibition object, it is possible to say that the exhibition of modern architecture is also a form of architecture.' The quote by Beatriz Colominy highlights the multilayered issue of the relationship between architecture and exhibition. Manifestation buildings and pavilions have determined the experimental direction in the development of architecture; architecture was part of commercial fairs and international exhibitions long before it was exhibited in gallery settings.
A number of institutional architecture collections have emerged since the 1970s – not least, the architecture of museums and galleries has significantly shaped the exhibition space itself since the 1990s.
How to define the curatorship of architecture and the role of the curator of the architecture collection in relation to the much more detailed discussion of the so-called curatorial turn in art? What role does architecture play in the exhibition system of the National Gallery in Prague? What tools, possibilities, and limits of exhibition are set by the processes of collecting, historiography, and canonization in the institutional context of a museum of art? Can architecture be understood as a form of curatorship?
'If modern architecture is an exhibition object, it is possible to say that the exhibition of modern architecture is also a form of architecture.' The quote by Beatriz Colominy highlights the multilayered issue of the relationship between architecture and exhibition. Manifestation buildings and pavilions have determined the experimental direction in the development of architecture; architecture was part of commercial fairs and international exhibitions long before it was exhibited in gallery settings.
A number of institutional architecture collections have emerged since the 1970s – not least, the architecture of museums and galleries has significantly shaped the exhibition space itself since the 1990s.
How to define the curatorship of architecture and the role of the curator of the architecture collection in relation to the much more detailed discussion of the so-called curatorial turn in art? What role does architecture play in the exhibition system of the National Gallery in Prague? What tools, possibilities, and limits of exhibition are set by the processes of collecting, historiography, and canonization in the institutional context of a museum of art? Can architecture be understood as a form of curatorship?
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