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Framer Framed

Institutional Critique

Magazine


Global Art History / Institutional Critique / Colonial history / Museologie / Textile /

Shapeshifters – Where Opacity Holds the Light
Bookshop Selection / The living archive / Institutional Critique / Colonial history / Museologie /

Bookshop Selection: Emptying the Shelves
Institutional Critique / Global Art History / Colonial history / Museologie / Textile /

Review: Shapeshifters: On Wounds, Wonders and Transformation, A Group Exhibition at Framer Framed
Art economy / Amsterdam Noord / Amsterdam Oost / Institutional Critique / Museologie / Contested Heritage /

Becoming ‘Established’ While Pioneering, a Note on the History of Framer Framed - by Esther Captain
Education / Shared Heritage / Institutional Critique / Colonial history / South Africa /

Shared Waters: How the Camissa Museum in Cape Town extends beyond its spatial borders to Amsterdam
Indonesia / Institutional Critique / Colonial history / Contested Heritage /

Colonialism in museums: Islamic art from Indonesia
Institutional Critique / Shared Heritage / The living archive / Colonial history /

Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums
Indonesia / Collection development / Ecology / Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

On the (de)coloniality of Kebun Raya Bogor, museum objects and contemporary Indonesian art
Community & Learning / Shared Heritage / Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

Report: Decolonial Futures with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Colonial history / Institutional Critique /

Article: Smithsonian’s Leader Says ‘Museums Have a Social Justice Role to Play’
Community & Learning / Amsterdam Noord / Amsterdam Oost / Institutional Critique /

How can we, as a cultural organisation, contribute to society during an unprecedented crisis?
Contested Heritage / Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

Expert meeting: On the presentation of contested heritage at Westfries Museum
Institutional Critique /

Losgezongen van tijd en ruimte, over het project Diasporic Self - door Jappe Groenendijk
Collection development / Institutional Critique / Queer /

Report: How to Un/Engender the Ethnographic Object?
Contemporary Aboriginal art / Collection development / Institutional Critique /

Report: On the future of the AAMU collection and the outlook of contemporary Aboriginal art
Institutional Critique / Shared Heritage / Indonesia /

Report: Musea and Dutch East Indies, lecture by Caroline Drieënhuizen
Contemporary Aboriginal art / Art economy / Institutional Critique /

Article: Why the closure of the Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art is an eternal shame
Colonial history / Institutional Critique /

Symposium: Decolonize The Museum
Institutional Critique / Global Art History /

Article: Globalisation in Dutch Art Centres, by Vincent van Velsen
Collection development / Institutional Critique /

Video: Onbegrensd Verzamelen
Collection development / Institutional Critique /

Review: of the exhibition 'Costume Bureau'
Institutional Critique / Global Art History /

Exhibition: How far how near – the world in the Stedelijk
Colonial history / Institutional Critique / Contested Heritage /

Decolonising the Museum: Limits and Possibilities
Institutional Critique /

Symposium: Heading East - New Institutional Models in Central and Eastern Europe
Shared Heritage / Indonesia / Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

Video: Suspended Histories
Institutional Critique /

Symposium and Book Presentation: Institutional Attitudes
Institutional Critique / Collection development /

Publication: Museums in a Global Context
Institutional Critique / Global Art History /

Symposium: Collecting Geographies - Global Programming and Museums of Modern Art
Institutional Critique /

Report: We Curate kick off seminar
Colonial history / Institutional Critique /

Article: Colonial nostalgia in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Institutional Critique / Innovative heritage /

Seminar: We Curate – Kick off seminar
Institutional Critique / Art economy /

Article: Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam under threat
Foto: Cas Bool
Institutional Critique / Shared Heritage / Indonesia / Colonial history /

Video: Contested History
Shared Heritage / Indonesia / Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

Video: Suspended Histories
Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

Lecture: Debate on the reopening on the Rijksmuseum
Institutional Critique /

Symposium: We Are Museums
Contested Heritage / Indonesia / Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

Physical anthropology in the Netherlands East Indies, ca. 1890-1960
Institutional Critique /

Symposium: The Future of Ethnographic Museums
Institutional Critique /

Symposium: Museum Narratives for the Twenty-first Century
Institutional Critique / Collection development / Global Art History /

Publication: Changing Perspective
Foto: Marlise Steeman
Institutional Critique /

Symposium: Bridges and Boundaries: Reframing Professional Education for Museums and Heritage
Colonial history / Collection development / Shared Heritage / Institutional Critique /

Report: Symposium Contested History
Institutional Critique / Global Art History /

Article: A response to the publication Changing Perspectives
Colonial history / Art economy / Institutional Critique /

Press Release: Closure of Molucan Museum
Institutional Critique /

Conference: What is a Post-colonial Exhibition?
Photography / Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

Project: Photographs, Colonial Legacy and Museums in Contemporary European Culture
Institutional Critique /

Conference: 5th International Conference on the Inclusive Museum
Institutional Critique /

International Colloquium: Beyond Modernity. Do Ethnography Museums Need Ethnography?
Institutional Critique /

Book launch: Museutopia
Institutional Critique /

Symposium The Challenges facing Museums on-site and online in the 21st Century
Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

Conference: Universalisms in Conflict
Colonial history / Global Art History / Institutional Critique /

The Netherlands in Post-Colonial Perspective
Collection development / Institutional Critique /

Panel Discussion: A critical reflection on museum policy
Institutional Critique /

Lecture: Future Museums
Institutional Critique / Community & Learning / Innovative heritage /

Symposium: Museums and Communities. The Heritage of Belonging
Innovative heritage / Institutional Critique /

Symposium: Ecomuseums 2012
Institutional Critique /

Book Launch: The Disruptive Museum
Institutional Critique /

Contemporary Art in Ethnographic Museums
Institutional Critique /

Book Launch: 24 European Ethnographic Museums
Institutional Critique /

Report: World Art and the Imperial Imagination
Shared Heritage / Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

Video: Cultural Heritage
Colonial history / Institutional Critique /

Video: The Exotic View (Dutch)
Institutional Critique / Global Art History /

The distinction between western and non-western art is outdated
Colonial history / Institutional Critique / Contested Heritage /

Article: The Exotic View
Colonial history / Innovative heritage / Institutional Critique /

Towards a Postcolonial Practice for Ethnographic Museums
Colonial history / Photography / Indonesia / Institutional Critique /

Report: Colonial Nostalgia
Institutional Critique /

Het museum als instituut staat ter discussie (Dutch)
Institutional Critique / Collection development /

Report: Collecting without Borders (1/5)
Collection development / Institutional Critique /

Report: Collecting without Borders (2/5)
Institutional Critique / Collection development /

Report: Collecting without Borders (3/5)
Collection development / Institutional Critique /

Report: Collecting without Borders (4/5)
Collection development / Institutional Critique /

Report: Collecting without Borders (5/5)
Institutional Critique / Global Art History /

Article: Art Around the Globe
Institutional Critique /

Publication: The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics
Institutional Critique /

Symposium: Transnational History of Museums
Institutional Critique /

Symposium: Atlas Versus the Cherry Tree - Museums, the Nation, and the World
Contested Heritage / Institutional Critique /

Symposium: Indigenous Peoples and Museums, Unraveling the Tensions
Fotografie: Anoek Steketee
Colonial history / Collection development / Institutional Critique /

Symposium: Colonial Nostalgia
Institutional Critique /

Symposium: Museums and Exhibitions as Materialisation of Knowledge Orders
Institutional Critique /

Symposium: Curiouser and Curiouser
Global Art History / Institutional Critique /

Symposium: Between Fetish and Art
Institutional Critique / Migration /

Symposium: Politics of Transmission. The 'Other' subject-object of a European community?
culturele sporen van de koloniale ervaring
Institutional Critique / Collection development / Shared Heritage / Colonial history /

Publication: Susan Legêne, Spiegelreflex
Indonesia / Shared Heritage / Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

Exhibition: Eastward Bound! Art, Culture and Colonialism
Contemporary Aboriginal art / Institutional Critique /

Discussing The Frame: The Aboriginal Art Museum as Theme Park
Institutional Critique /

Manifesto for an enfranchised museum

Exhibitions


Exhibition: Shapeshifters

A group exhibition examining how colonialism has shaped museums, archives and other institutions of knowledge

Agenda


Guided Tour: Shapeshifters, On Wounds, Wonders and Transformation
Guided tour of the exhibition Shapeshifters, examining how colonialism has shaped the ways museums, archives and other institutions of knowledge are perceived and understood
Workshop: Moving Labels – Shifting Narratives
A series of workshops by Barbara Neves Alves with Clare Butcher and Pedro Manuel about re-interpreting museum labels
Symposium: Shapeshifters
Day-long symposium addressing the ethical and cultural implications of collections built through colonial looting and exploitation
Opening: Shapeshifters
Group exhibition that examines how colonialism has shaped the ways museums, archives and other institutions of knowledge are perceived and understood
Exhibition: Shapeshifters
A group exhibition examining how colonialism has shaped museums, archives and other institutions of knowledge
Bakunin’s Barricade: Answered
A conversation with Ahmet Öğüt on museum collections, art, and its use for activism
Decolonial Summer School: Celebrating 15 Years of the Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School
Events hosted by leading experts in the field of decolonial thinking at Framer Framed (Amsterdam) and Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven)
Rematriation Rehearsals: On a Mesoamerican Skull Displayed in Leiden
A conversation on 3D printing in the context of stolen or looted artefacts from indigenous communities
Book Presentation: The Curatorial Condition
An evening with scholar and theoretician Beatrice von Bismarck marking her recent publication The Curatorial Condition.
Decolonial Futures: Workshop with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
First term of the Decolonial Futures programme 2021-2022
Symposium: (Post) Anthropocene Museologies
Hybride symposium over museale praktijken in het Antropoceen
Launch: Errant Journal #1, When Are We?
Errant Journal is a concept by Irene de Craen, realised in collaboration with Framer Framed
Symposium: Declassified - How to Un/Engender the Ethnographic Object?
On the (historical) construction of gender and sexuality within the ethnographic collecting practices of museums.
Event: Farewell to the hermetic monoculture
Lecture by curator Mirjam Westen on the rol of art institutions in a rapidly changing global context.
Collecting without boundaries. Creating a future-proof museum
A discussion on collection exchange, mobility and museum collaboration.
World Art and the Imperial Imagination
A workshop on the interface of contemporary art, postcolonial theory and cultural museology.
Cultural Heritage and Shared Knowledge
A panel discussion on the concept and use of cultural heritage.
The Colonial Gaze
On the historical preconceptions that determine our view of art.
Collecting without Borders
Ethnographic, historical and art museums in dialogue on collecting and presenting global art.