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It has been five years since UN member states adopted Agenda 2030, an unprecedented global plan for sustainable development. With just a decade left to meet the Agenda goals, is the EU ...

For Yilmaz Dziewior, Director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, museums are both socially formed and formative for society: they do not operate in a vacuum, but are specific to their ...

At Müze Evliyagil museum in Ankara, Can Akgümüş describes how staff did not digitize exhibitions during the pandemic, and have focused instead on securing visitor trust in the ...

At Moscow Museum of Modern Art, executive director Vasili Tsereteli resists fixed definitions of the museum’s purpose and foregrounds the flux of ideas and collaborative exhibition ...

The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is using the crisis to question concepts, rethink exhibitions and make stored collections accessible.

Upholding the international spirit against nationalism and racism. For Marion Ackermann, General Director of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, this is one of the most important ...

The role of the curator has changed over the decades. The art historian Annette von Tietenberg has been working on modern exhibition work challenges as part of ifa’s Research Programme ...

Window Project Contemporary Art Space in Tbilisi embraced more digital tools through lockdown, but remains committed to a democratic physical space of social and artistic encounter.

For Peter Weibel, Chairman of the ZKM in Karlsruhe, a museum is not only a place of perception, it is also a place of production and an alternative to the mainstream. According to him, ...