Eleventh International Conference on The Inclusive Museum

Abstract

Despite the evolution in the reconsideration of artistic creation as it has been stating during the last years, the evolution of museums and exhibition spaces does not follow the same path, remaining anchored in early last century’s concepts and practices. It is true that the museum has endowed the art scene with certain stability, but this has been obtained in exchange of a significant lack of ideological flexibility. Contemporary exhibitions such as the Documenta, offer a different approach to the exhibition practice, proposing alternative readings on the current exhibition space and establishing a new way of seeing and understanding the practice of exposing actual art, according to a new society of a new era. The possibility of its application in the construction of a discourse, other than the official one, is investigated in this paper. From spokesman of the power that has generated it, to speaker of ideas of the society it represents, this should be the commitment to be fulfilled by today’s museum. It is a commitment to change the role that it assumed more than two centuries ago but today, more than ever, it is essential to review.