Curatorial Challenges

Malene Vest Hansen is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Copenhagen.Anne Folke Henningsen is Associate Professor of Ethnology at the University of Copenhagen.Anne Gregersen is Curator at the J.F. Willumsens Museum and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen.

• List of FiguresList of contributorsIntroduction: Thinking and Doing ExhibitionsAnne Folke Henningsen, Anne Gregersen, and Malene Vest Hansen Part I. Curating within the Changing Role of Museums as Bildung Institutions1. Curatorship as Bildungsroman: Or, From Hamlet to HjelmslevDonald Preziosi 2. Curating the Nude in Istanbul: Some Curatorial ChallengesAhu Antmen 3. Curating the Dead Body between Medicine and CultureKarin Tybjerg 4. Fashion Curation: Unpacking a New Discipline and PracticeMarie Riegels Melchior 5. Exhibition Addresses: The Production of Publics in Exhibitions on Colonial HistoryMathias Danbolt 6. Multi-Sited Curating as a Critical Mode of Knowledge ProductionSabine Dahl Nielsen Part II - Exhibitions and/as Research7. Curating and Research: An Uneasy AllianceSimon Sheikh 8. Exhibitions as Research, Curator as DistractionPeter Bjerregaard 9. Curating a Mild Apocalypse. Researching Anthropocene Ecologies through Analytical FiguresNathalia Brichet and Frida Hastrup 10. Curating experimental entanglements Adam Bencard, Louise Whiteley and Caroline Heje Thon11. The forgotten and the forgettable: the making of The World Goes Pop and Other StoriesFlavia Frigeri 12. Looters, Smugglers, and Collectors: Rethinking Models of Ownership Research and How to Mediate It through the Form of the ExhibitionTone Hansen Part III - Revisiting the Past and Challenging Canons13. Multiple Modernisms: Curating the Postwar Era for the Present Kristian Handberg 14. Contested Paradise: Exhibiting Images from the Former Danish West IndiesMette Kia Krabbe Meyer 15. Against the Grain of Neutralization: Exhibiting the Documentary as a Curatorial Production of Subjective Knowledge Susanne Neubauer 16. Innovative, Polemical, Dogmatic: The Case of Soviet Experimental Museum Displays in 1930–1933Masha Chlenova Concluding remarksAnne Folke Henningsen, Anne Gregersen and Malene Vest Hansen Index

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