The Museum as Art Practice. Twentieth-Century Art Collections and Institutions Created by Artists

Art collections, galleries and museums were created not only on the initiative of wealthy families, wealthy art dealers or state patronage. In the twentieth century, among the initiators one can also find numerous artists who transcended the boundaries of traditional roles of creators and joined in actively shaping the institutional dimension of art and subjected to critical analysis the idea of the museum as an institution inscribed in the discourse of power and memory.

The lecture will provide an opportunity to explore the relationship between artistic creation and institutional and collecting activities, and to learn about such initiatives as the International Collection of Modern Art of the a.r. group, the collection of Société Anonyme, The Chinati Foundation and the Center for Polish Sculpture in Oronsko.

The lecture is referring to the exhibition “Odesa. The 20th Century in Art”.

Free entrance. Venue: „The Ravens” Hall, Rynek Główny 25. Additionally, it will be broadcast online via the Zoom platform. In order to receive a virtual invitation, please send your application to: warsztaty@mck.krakow.pl

Lecturer:

Dr. Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk – art historian, curator. She studied art history at the Jagiellonian University, Universität Wien, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. A graduate of the interdisciplinary programme Environment-Technology-Society (Jagiellonian University). Author of academic articles on art and architecture of the 20th century and essays in exhibition catalogues and magazines. Co-editor of the anthology “obraz/ciało” and co-editor of “Komponowanie przestrzeni. Rzeźby awangardy”. Co-author and curator of the “Exercising Modernity” programme (Pilecki-Institut Berlin). As part of her doctoral dissertation prepared at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University, she investigates the concept of space in the work of Katarzyna Kobro.