Migration: Traces in an Art Collection (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783956795473)

A survey and exhibition catalog looking at a century of the migrant experience as realized and expressed through art.

How have artists over the past 150 years related to migration and exile? And what role can a museum play in times of mass migration? Taking as its starting point the 2019 exhibition Migration: Traces in an Art Collection, which featured more than a hundred works from Malmö Konstmuseum made between 1880 and today, this publication brings to light the radical approach of museum director Ernst Fischer, who in 1945 transformed the museum into a refugee shelter for survivors of German concentration camps. It also highlights the museum's long-forgotten Latvian Collection, comprised of art acquired in solidarity with the young Baltic nation and its exiles. Contrasting works by exiled artists such as Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Lotte Laserstein, Endre Nemes, and Peter Weiss further animate the discussion, as do the geopolitical concerns of Pia Arke, Öyvind Fahlström, and Charlotte Johannesson. Correspondingly, a conversation with the exhibition's curators foregrounds the ways in which today's artists reflect upon and articulate experiences of migration. Together, these re-readings of the collection and its potential contribute to an urgent debate on the role of museums in our time.

Contributors

Ernst Fischer, Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen, Maria Lind, Lotte L vholm, Joanna Warsza, and Cecilia Widenheim

Author: Maria Lind
ISBN-10: 3956795474
ISBN-13: 9783956795473
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Language: English
Published: 05/25/2021
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.00d