Exhibition Histories focuses on exhibitions of contemporary art from the past fifty years that have changed the way art is seen and made. Each title in the series addresses a different theme in the history of curatorial practice, with specific reference to a particular exhibition or cluster of exhibitions. Each book includes newly commissioned essays and interviews, key texts from the time (such as reviews) and comprehensive visual documentation. The series launched in the autumn of 2010, with Exhibiting the New Art: 'Op Losse Schroeven' and 'When Attitudes Become Form' 1969, followed in the summer of 2011 with Making Art Global (Part 1): The Third Havana Biennial 1989. Future titles will include: From Conceptualism to Feminism: Lucy Lippard's Numbers Shows 1969-74 and, with the support of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, Making Art Global (Part 2): 'Magiciens de la Terre' 1989.
The books in the Exhibition Histories series are evolving from a dedicated and ongoing research project. The following events are part of this research endeavour:
'Art and the Social: Exhibitions of Contemporary Art in the 1990s', 30 April 2010, in collaboration with FORMER WEST and hosted by Tate Britain.
'Exhibitions and the World at Large', 3 April 2009, in collaboration with TrAIN and hosted by Tate Britain.
'Conceptual Art and its Exhibitions', 29 May 2008, in collaboration with and hosted by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
This project is developed in partnership with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, with the support of Arts Council England and MUDAM, Luxembourg.
Image (above and previous page): Installation view of the exhibition 'Magiciens de la Terre', at La Villette, Paris, 1989. Photograph © Deidi von Schaewen.
