Institution(ing)s – a platform for rethinking art institutions

Alba Lindblad: alba@tenstakonsthall.se

Join us on November 27 for an open presentation of the European collaborative project Institution(ing)s, in which Tensta konsthall is participating. Participate via link here!

Participants: Luísa Santos, artistic director, Institution(ing)s, Lisbon
Ana Fabíola Maurício, researcher and project manager, Institution(ing)s, Lisbon
Yuliia Hnat, co-founder, Ecosystem Projects and development manager at NGO Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA NGO), Kyiv, Ukraine (participating via link)
Cecilia Widenheim, director of Tensta Konsthall
Martí Manen, program director at CuratorLab

Schedule

18.00—18.10, Short introduction and welcome by Cecilia Widenheim, director of Tensta Konsthall

18.10—18.40, Institution(ing)s — a platform for rethinking art institutions, presentation by Luísa Santos & Ana Fabíola Maurício
Institution(ing)s: Co-Creating Inclusive and Sustainable European Art Institutions is a European collaborative project that aims to encourage art and cultural organizations to work together to find new, creative institutional models and ways of working by testing ideas, collaborating, thinking freely, and pushing for a sustainable social, artistic, and environmental future. Institution(ing)s consists of eight organizations of varying sizes, with different influences and target groups in seven European countries, representing the diversity of the cultural ecosystem.

Q&A and short break

19.00—19.30, Tendencies towards simplification. The need for complication, presentation by Yuliia Hnat
Drawing on Ukraine’s wartime cultural experience, Yuliia Hnat reflects on how institutions operate under conditions of radical simplification — when survival demands the reduction of complexity in governance, policy, and cultural practice. She argues that today this simplicity has become a threat to resilience and meaning. Through the work of MOCA NGO and the development of UMCA as a decentralized museum model, the talk explores the urgent need to “complicate” — to restore and cultivate depth, reflection, and plurality within cultural infrastructures, narratives, and cross-fields collaboration.

In collaboration with Martí Manen / CuratorLab, Konstfack / University of Arts, Crafts and Design.

Institution(ing)s is a medium-scale collaboration project co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.