A curatorial situation is always one of hospitality. It implies
invitations to artists, artworks, curators, audiences, and institutions;
people and objects are received, welcomed, and temporarily brought
together. It offers resources for material and physical support while
also responding to a need for recognition, respect, or attention.
Finally, and very importantly, a curatorial situation operates in the
space between an unconditional acceptance of the other and exclusions
legitimized through various rules and regulations.
This publication analyzes, from the perspective of hospitality, the
curatorial within the current sociopolitical context through key topics
concerning immigration, conditions along borders, and accommodations for
refugees. The contributions in this volume, by international curators,
artists, critics, and theoreticians, deal with conditions of
decontextualization and displacement, encounters between the local and
the foreign, as well as the satisfaction of basic human needs.
Hospitality: Hosting Relations in Exhibitions is the third volume in
the Cultures of the Curatorial book series.
Copublished with Kulturen des Kuratorischen, Hochschule für Grafik und
Buchkunst Leipzig
**Contributors
**Beatrice von Bismarck, Nanne Buurman, Maja Ćiric, Alice Creischer,
Andrea Fraser, Lorenzo Fusi, Wiebke Gronemeyer, Erik Hagoort, Anthony
Huberman, Thomas Locher, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Dieter Roelstraete,
Stefan Römer, Jörn Schafaff, Andreas Siekmann, Ruth Sonderegger
