The Captured Museum

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ISBN: 9783868590593
English edition
Jovis Verlag
Softcover, 168 pages
17 x 24 cm
colour
February 2011
€23,58 (excl. VAT)

The Captured Museum

On Carte blanche: A Research Project by the GfZK Leipzig

Barbara Steiner Ed(s)

“For a fee, a Leipzig gallery offers its exhibition space to private initiatives—i.e., collectors, businesses, or commercial galleries. They may do with it whatever they will.” Roughly, this is the scheme—no doubt abbreviated intentionally by journalists—behind Carte Blanche (CB), a two-year research project by the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (2008–2010). The participating private collectors and businesses not only took on the costs of the exhibition, but also a share in the overall project budget for operating costs, attendants, publicity work, communication, etc. The artistic ideas and the objectives of the sponsors were presented for public discussion. This book analyses the contributions made by private initiatives and places them in a wider context of art theory dating back to the 19th century. Reflections on the changing relations of art and commerce, on museum history, or shifts in the balance of public and private form the framework into which CB, an often provocative project, is embedded.