What to look for in a black box? an attempt to recapitulate the pandemic experience in gallery management
What to look for in a black box? an attempt to recapitulate the pandemic experience in gallery management

Author(s): Marika Kupková, Monika Szűcsová
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Management and complex organizations, Health and medicine and law, Sociology of Art
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: black box; art; gallery; management; pandemics;
Summary/Abstract: This text is an insight into the life of a city gallery during the turbulent period of the last three years, which have been defined by the pandemic and the ongoing crisis associated with, among other things, the war in Ukraine. This is not a tumultuous period in the organization’s history, as it is not shutting down or severely reducing its operations. At least for the time being. Thanks to its status as a municipal contributory organization, Brno Galerie TIC1 has a relatively stable background. In any case, the crisis has accelerated some of the longer-term trends in the gallery’s management; in addition, novel developments and challenges have emerged. These include an increased awareness of the social responsibility of cultural institutions, the search for and verification of functional ways of communicating with audiences, or the abandonment and return of presentation to the exhibition space. Still, this focus on one particular gallery is not intended to be a case study; our ambition is to capture the contemporary development of the production, distribution and, to some extent, interpretation of visual art in a more general sense.

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