• Fri 10 11 2017 / 7 pm •
The Museum Before the Museum Lara Khaldi

with LARA KHALDI

In her talk, Academy fellow and curator Lara Khaldi considers the age-old question of what museums and their objects mean to the self-understanding of a nation and its people – a question that could not be more complicated than in Palestine. Despite the extreme challenges of building and protecting collections here, there has recently been a proliferation of museums. Khaldi’s talk hones in on these new institutions to focus on the specificity of infrastructure in a place like Palestine, under occupation, and not yet a “nation state.” She looks at how their agendas anticipate nationhood, and she scrutinizes representations of the museum in past and recent works by artists such as Noor Abuarefeh, Khalil Rabah, Khaled Hourani, Walid Raad, and others, asking whether their musealization of the very idea of a museum might make its content disappear.

Venue: Temporary Gallery, Mauritiuswall 35, 50676 Cologne
In English
Free admission

In cooperation with Temporary Gallery