Exhibition
Pilvi Takala
18 Mar 2023 – 04 Jun 2023
Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art
London, United Kingdom
Event
Book Launch AFTER INSTITUTIONS BY KAREN ARCHEY 30 Mar
30 Mar 2023
Regular hours
- Thu, 30 Mar
- 19:00 – 20:30
Free admission
Address
- St James’s
- London
England - SE14 6ED
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 21 - 47 - 53 - 136 - 171 - 172 - 177 - 188 - 321 - 436 - 453
- New Cross Gate Overground Station - New Cross Overground Stations
- New Cross Gate Station - New Cross Station
Event map
Join us for a talk and book launch of Karen Archey’s latest publication After Institutions at the CCA.
About
Faced with waning state support, declining revenue, and forced entrepreneurialism, museums have become a threatened public space. Simultaneously, they have assumed the role of institutional arbiter in issues of social justice and accountability. The canon of Institutional Critique has responded to the social embeddedness of art institutions by looking at the inner workings of such organizations. In After Institutions, Karen Archey expands the definition of Institutional Critique to develop a broader understanding of contemporary art’s sociopolitical entanglements, looking beyond what cultural institutions were to what they are and what they might become.
BIOGRAPHIES
Karen Archey is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. She is a 2015 Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant recipient for short-form writing. Since joining the Stedelijk Museum in April 2017, Archey has organized solo exhibitions by artists Rineke Dijkstra, Catherine Christer Hennix, Steffani Jemison, Metahaven, Jeff Preiss, Charlotte Prodger, and Hito Steyerl. She has written numerous catalogue essays and is a contributor to several art publications, including Artforum and Frieze.
