‘Bringing the world home’ is a motto that marks the entrance to the exhibition halls of the Ethnographic Museum in…
Maria Mkrtycheva
The deadline for this blog entry coincided with the beginning of the war in Ukraine. I felt shocked, angry, desperate,…
The idea of social justice lies at the baseline of building an accessible public art institution. Recognizing that everyone deserves…
Pursuit of an open, accessible and participatory environment within art institutions can be seen as an incentive for creating an…
It’s been a month since I arrived in Stockholm for the secondment at Tensta Konsthall. It is located in a…
A shift from an institution as a gallery space to the “mix of community centre, club, academy and “showroom” [1],…
What’s wrong with multiculturalism? And how did the values of “equal opportunity, coupled with cultural diversity, in an atmosphere of…
To me the highlight of July was the three-day workshop “Decoding Social Spaces” led by artist Christoph Schäfer; and I…
What role does “art” play in “socially-engaged art practice”? Can it be removed or replaced, and what happens when it…
As our programme moves on and the picture of my research zooms in, it becomes quite challenging to keep an…