Thinking with Large-scale Exhibitions about Space, History, and Art

Abstract

That large-scale recurrent international exhibitions structure our experience of contemporary art and play a determining role in its relationship to the market and the museum (as well as their own entanglement with each other), that the exponential increase in the number of biennials, and their expansion and geographical dispersion over the last thirty years is characteristic of the current recomposition of the art “world” - all these observations are commonplace nowadays. But the difficulty ...