The Museum Is Multiple

Thu Mar 13 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm UTC+01:00

Maria Skolgata 83, Stockholm | Stockholm

Iaspis Konstn\u00e4rsn\u00e4mnden
Publisher/HostIaspis Konstnärsnämnden
The Museum Is Multiple
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The Museum Is Multiple

Date: Thursday 13 March 2024
Time: 6:00–7:30 pm
Place: IASPIS/Konstnärsnämnden
Address: Maria Skolgata 83, Stockholm

Welcome to a conversation about the book “The Museum Is Multiple: Van Abbemuseum 2004 – 24” between the co-editor and former director Charles Esche, curator Corina Oprea and architects and researchers Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti.

The Museum is Multiple addresses the urgent process of decolonizing Western museums – a fraught and always unfinished conversation between people, art, the past and the present. The book tells the recent history of the Van Abbemuseum, at once a case study of Charles Esche’s directorship from 2004 – 24 and a richly illustrated archive of the period. At its centre are two long conversations between past and present senior members of the curatorial team.

The Museum Is Multiple is edited by Charles Esche and Chương-Đài Võ, with contributions from Annie Fletcher, Christiane Berndes, Julia Alting, Nick Aikens, Steven ten Thije, Wulan Dirgantoro, and Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide; infographics by Studio Joost Grootens; and research by Marjolein Ossewaarde and Abril Cisneros Ramírez. The book is designed by Laura Pappa.
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▪️Charles Esche is a curator and writer and professor of contemporary art and curating at University of the Arts, London. He is an advisor at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht and board member of ZKM, Stuttgart. He was director of Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven from 2004–24.

▪️Corina Oprea is a curator, researcher, and editor with extensive experience in contemporary art, museology, and cultural theory. She recently held a curatorial position at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, contributing to research, exhibition development, and collection presentations.
▪️Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti are architects and founders of DAAR, an artistic research practice situated between architecture, art, pedagogy and politics. Over the last two decades, they have developed a series of research- projects that are both theoretically ambitious and practically engaged in the struggle for justice and equality.
Image: The Museum Is Multiple, design by Laura Pappa.
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