Migration : spår i en konstsamling = traces in an art collection / Maria Lind, Cecilia Widenheim.
How have artists over the past 150 years related to migration and exile? And what role can a museum play in times of mass migration? Taking as its starting point the 2019 exhibition Migration: Traces in an Art Collection, which featured more than a hundred works from Malmö Konstmuseum made between 1880 and today, this publication brings to light the radical approach of museum director Ernst Fischer, who in 1945 transformed the museum into a refugee shelter for survivors of German concentration camps. It also highlights the museum's long-forgotten Latvian Collection, comprised of art acquired in solidarity with the young Baltic nation and its exiles. Contrasting works by exiled artists such as Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Lotte Laserstein, Endre Nemes, and Peter Weiss further animate the discussion, as do the geopolitical concerns of Pia Arke, Öyvind Fahlström, and Charlotte Johannesson. Correspondingly, a conversation with the exhibition's curators foregrounds the ways in which today's artists reflect upon and articulate experiences of migration. Together, these re-readings of the collection and its potential contribute to an urgent debate on the role of museums in our time.
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- ISBN: 9783956795473
- ISBN: 3956795474
- Physical Description: 319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Malmö : Malmö Konstmuseum ; [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020.
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General Note: | Title from cover. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Förord = Preface / Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg -- Introduktion = Introduction / Maria Lind, Cecilia Widenheim -- Konstnärer och verk A-Z = Artists and works A-Z -- Genom maskhål = Through Wormholes / Lotte Løvholm -- Museets förändring efter döden = The Museum's Transformation after Death / Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen -- Glimtar från ett levande museum = Glimpses from a Living Museum / Ernst Fischer -- Du går in i magasinet, ställer en fråga tili samlingen, och den svarar : Om migration, museer, offentlighet och blinda fläckar = You enter the storage, ask the collection something, and it will answer : On migration, museums, publicness and blind spots / Cecilia Widenheim och Maria Lind i samtal med Joanna Warsza -- Kontrapunkter = Contrappunti / Luca Frei -- Planritningar = Exhibition plans -- CuratorLab = CuratorLab -- Biografier = Biographies. |
Language Note: | Parallel texts in Swedish and English. |
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Subject: | Emigration and immigration in art. Exiles in art. Museums > Social aspects. |
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