A standard anthology of art historical methodology rarely, if ever, includes institutional history. However, all artistic practice has an institutional dimension. An analysis of this key component could only enrich our understanding of art’s meaning and its historical development. Based on a graduate course I developed at the EUSP, my ongoing book project serves to introduce and conceptualise the theory and history of an institutional approach to the study of art in Europe. I connect and examine various methodological approaches of studying institutions that affected the professionalisation of artists, the production of works of art, their circulation, legitimation, and actualization in society. Having drafted the first two parts of the project, the ACADEMY and the EXHIBITION, during the Scholarship, I will develop the final part, the MUSEUM. The project scrutinises the possibilities and limitations of studying art institutions: how can they complement or help us reconsider conventional art historical narratives by revising prevailing myths or clichés about artists, works of art, and movements, and how can they assist us deconstruct the very patterns of writing those narratives.

About Dr. Andrey Shabanov:
Having received an MA in 2004 in art history from the European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2013, Andrey Shabanov completed PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Until Autumn 2022, he was a lecturer in the Department of Art History at EUSP. His monograph Art and Commerce in Late Imperial Russia. The Peredvizhniki, a Partnership of Artists, was published in Russian (EUSP PRESS, 2015) and English (Bloomsbury Academics, 2019). Andrey Shabanov's teaching and research interests centre on European institutional art history, and the history of art exhibitions. Andrey Shabanov combines academic research with curatorial work in contemporary arts. Currently, Andrey Shabanov is a guest research fellow at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Fakultät Kunst und Gestaltung. During his public talk he will briefly discuss two of his most recent curatorial works and then introduce his ongoing book project An Introduction to History and Theory of Modern Art Institutions. The Museum.

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The talk will be held in English.

Date:
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 7 p.m.

Location:
Faculty of Art and Design
Van-de-Velde-Building, room 116
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 7
99423 Weimar


Organiser and moderator of the event: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alexandra R. Toland