HANDBERG, Kristian
Conquering the Present in the Long Sixties: The curatorial birth of contemporary art

Conquering the present in the Long Sixties is an essay that proposes a new understanding of the art world in the 1960s, and how a predominant interest in the present formed then contemporary art as we know it today. From the breakthrough of American Pop Art in Scandinavian art museums to the legendary documenta 5 in 1972, not to mention the presence of a Soviet cosmonaut as an exhibiting artist at the Venice Biennale in 1968, a wide range of examples of the era’s artistic experiments, curatorial visions, and new institutions, as well as the protest actions against them, show how the contemporary condition as such has been the subject of intense debate.

Published by Antipyrine / Motto Books, 2019
Essays / Art Theory / Art History