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Exhibiting in Slovenia II
Second Symposium on the Exhibiting of Art, Architecture, and Design, and Exhibition Institutions in Slovenia
21–22 April 2022, City Museum of Ljubljana

Emi Finkelstein: Revising the Museum. Exhibiting Moderna galerija’s Arteast 2000+ in Berlin

The paper examines the Slovenian participation in the exhibition Hello World: Revising a Collection (Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, 28 March – 26 August 2018) through the inclusion of work loaned from the Arteast 2000+ collection of the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana. This German exhibition, which asked what Western museum of contemporary art’s collection would look like had a more open and transnational understanding of art informed its genesis, in an attempt to produce an inhabitable image of the “global modern” through an inclusion of art primarily from East-Central Europe and the Global South. The collections of the Moderna galerija, which were displayed in the nexus Sites of Sustainability: Pavilions, Manifestos and Crypts, illustrate what was at stake in this exhibition: the Hamburger Bahnhof is erroneously understood to be a “Western” museum, despite its location on the faultline between former East and West Berlin. My paper argues that the foregrounding of the collections of the Moderna galerija in both an institution and a city that act as critical space(s) for the production of contemporary German identity offers the possibility of not only revising a collection, but rather the museum’s larger cultural orientation.

Emi Finkelstein is an art historian and cultural worker based in Berlin. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, currently working as a DAAD fellow at the Universität Leipzig’s Institut für Kunstgeschichte. Her work examines the function of museums in post-socialist eastern Germany. In addition to her scholarly work, Finkelstein is a curator who has contributed to numerous exhibitions, most notably Dig Where You Stand at the 57th Carnegie International.

Organizers: Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška, Božidar Jakac Art Museum, France Stele Institute of Art History (the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, ZRC SAZU), Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

The symposium is financially supported by Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) and the ERSTE Foundation.