This issue compiles the outcome of the symposium at the Kunstmuseum Basel and a summer academy at the Zurich University of the Arts. The symposium “De-colonizing Art Institutions” took place at Kunstmuseum Basel, June 21 and 22, 2017, with the speakers Sabih Ahmed (Asia Art Archive), Jeebesh Bagchi (Raqs Media Collective), Binna Choi (Casco), Eyal Danon (Holon Digital Art Archive), Kadiatou Diallo (SPARCK), Same Sizakele Mdluli (Lecturer, Wits University), Rohit Jain (ISEK, Uni Zürich), Shwetal A. Patel (Kochi-Muziris Biennale), Dorothee Richter (Postgraduate Programme in Curating, ZHdK), Roma Jam Session art Kollektiv (RJSaK), and Søren Grammel.
You will find contributions by the guests of the symposium and additional articles by scholars and practitioners connected to this topic.
The symposium was accompanied by a Summer Academy in Zurich held by the Further Education, Postgraduate Programme in Curating, Zurich University of the Arts from June 13–24 and an exhibition with the same name at the OnCurating Project Space in Zurich The outcome of this exhibition is published in another Oncurating Issue.