Abstract
The work of Boris Groys has certainly put into question certain traditional approaches in art history and art theory. One of its most innovative dimensions concerns the relationship between the art museum and the work of art. For the art museum must no longer be understood as serving primarily as site for the permanent collection and preservation of artworks of the past by means of which artistic traditions can be contemplated, but rather as a dynamic and fluid curatorial site. Contemporary curatorship marks the art museum as site of happenings, and art museum curatorship as practice can be understood as a version of cure (and care) in that it supplements what the artwork might fail to be able to do on its own. The paper elaborates on the implications that Groys’ notion of curatorship has not only for the museum and for the artwork, but also for the practice of curating and for the role of the curator.
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Groys, Curatorship, Care, Museum
