Malene Vest Hansen is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Copenhagen.

Anne Folke Henningsen is Associate Professor of Ethnology at the University of Copenhagen.

Anne Gregersen is Curator at the J.F. Willumsens Museum and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen.

List of Figures

List of contributors

Introduction: Thinking and Doing Exhibitions

Anne Folke Henningsen, Anne Gregersen, and Malene Vest Hansen

Part I.Curating within the Changing Role of Museums as Bildung Institutions

1. Curatorship as Bildungsroman: Or, From Hamlet to Hjelmslev

Donald Preziosi

2. Curating the Nude in Istanbul: Some Curatorial Challenges

Ahu Antmen

3. Curating the Dead Body between Medicine and Culture

Karin Tybjerg

4. Fashion Curation: Unpacking a New Discipline and Practice

Marie Riegels Melchior

5. Exhibition Addresses: The Production of Publics in Exhibitions on Colonial History

Mathias Danbolt

6. Multi-Sited Curating as a Critical Mode of Knowledge Production

Sabine Dahl Nielsen

Part II - Exhibitions and/as Research

7. Curating and Research: An Uneasy Alliance

Simon Sheikh

8. Exhibitions as Research, Curator as Distraction

Peter Bjerregaard

9. Curating a Mild Apocalypse. Researching Anthropocene Ecologies through Analytical Figures

Nathalia Brichet and Frida Hastrup

10. Curating experimental entanglements

Adam Bencard, Louise Whiteley and Caroline Heje Thon

11. The forgotten and the forgettable: the making of The World Goes Pop and Other Stories

Flavia Frigeri

12. Looters, Smugglers, and Collectors: Rethinking Models of Ownership Research and How to Mediate It through the Form of the Exhibition

Tone Hansen

Part III - Revisiting the Past and Challenging Canons

13. Multiple Modernisms: Curating the Postwar Era for the Present

Kristian Handberg

14. Contested Paradise: Exhibiting Images from the Former Danish West Indies

Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer

15. Against the Grain of Neutralization: Exhibiting the Documentary as a Curatorial Production of Subjective Knowledge

Susanne Neubauer

16. Innovative, Polemical, Dogmatic: The Case of Soviet Experimental Museum Displays in 1930-1933

Masha Chlenova

Concluding remarks

Anne Folke Henningsen, Anne Gregersen and Malene Vest Hansen

Index