DU2005 Seminar: Museum and Gallery Practice

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Ing. Marcela Rusinko, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Ladislav Kesner, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Ladislav Kesner, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:40 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The seminar will be devoted to the theory and practice of curatorship in the art museum and curatorial exhibition project. Students will be introduced to current questions and theories that are related to the mediation and interpretation of the visual arts. The major part of the seminar will be devoted to the practice of visiting and evaluating exhibitions, discussing ongoing exhibition projects and, in particular, preparing your own project. Each participant in the seminar will prepare its own exhibition project during the first two months according to the assignment. Joint discussions and criticism of these projects will be devoted to the last month of the semester.

The subject acquaints students in general with the issues of public, institutional collections, museums and art galleries in our and partly also foreign environment. For individual visits, we select institutions of varying size, legal framework, number of employees and collection items. We discuss the past and future of galleries, the goals pursued, the form of work with the public, and the need for social networks and electronic media to be involved. With art historians - curators - we discuss the form of their exhibitions, the methods of preparation, the visitors' response. Last but not least, we monitor the integration of modern interactive technologies into expositions, we ask for the structure of the visitors, we evaluate the web and media presentations of the institutions.

Within the framework of the preparation of their own curatorial project, the listeners are executed at all stages of the project: formulation of ideas, annotation, grant application, selection of artworks, preparation of installation, preparation of budget including transport, installation material, promotion costs, project presentation including written output, opening evening simulation, media response simulation (through other listeners).
Learning outcomes
After successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- fast orientation in the domestic sphere of art museums and galleries
- can identify the legislative framework of functioning of the individual institutions
- have an overview of the genesis and structure of the largest public art collections in the Czech Republic
- through active visits of institutions, monitoring of their professional activities and public presentations are led to comparative assessments of individual institutions, their outputs and approaches
- are able to work with online-search collection databases
- have an overview of major foreign collection institutions and the principle of their operation
- can actively work with relevant information sources and literature
- can describe in the basic features of the historical transformation of curatorialism in the   Euro-American context, its methods, aims and paradigms
-understand the ways of curatorial practice
-understand the functioning of museum institutions and their professional activities
-prepare, explain and defend your own exhibition project
Syllabus
  • - history of the genesis of public museums and galleries in the Czech environment
  • - the essence of existence of museums and galleries
  • - the legislative framework for functioning
  • - ministery, regional, municipal or private institutions
  • - administration of collections according to the law and professional activities of the art museum
  • - the role of an art historian as collection manager, exhibition curator, connoisseur
  • - working with the public and media
  • - management of the museum of art according to the number of collections and employees
  • - current international trends in museums and curatorship
  • - the role of private corporate collections in our country
  • - professional organizations associating art galleries and museums - memory institutions in the age of virtual reality: museums, new technologies and forms of communication
  • -preparation of own individual and group projects
  • -excursions, criticism of running exhibition projects
Literature
    required literature
  • Rituál múzea v digitálnom veku. Edited by Mária Bohumelová. Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 2015, 144 stran. ISBN 9788080591908. info
  • Médium kurátor : role kurátora v současném českém umění. Edited by David Korecký. Vyd. 1. Praha: Agite/Fra, 2009, 276 s. ISBN 9788086863344. info
  • KESNER, Ladislav. Muzeum umění v digitální době : vnímání obrazů a prožitek umění v soudobé společnosti. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Argo, 2000, 259 s. ISBN 8070351551. info
    recommended literature
  • Collecting the new :museums and contemporary art. Edited by Bruce Altshuler. 1 online r. ISBN 9781400849352. info
  • CHROBÁK, Ondřej, Rostislav KORYČÁNEK and Martin VANĚK. Jak se dělá galerie. Illustrated by David Böhm. 1. vydání. V Brně: Moravská galerie, 2016, 61 stran. ISBN 9788070273036. info
    not specified
  • FAYET, Roger. Die Logik des Museums : Beiträge zur Museologie. Baden: Hier und Jetzt, 2015, 112 stran. ISBN 9783039193714. info
  • REICHEL, Jana. Kurátor versus pedagog (Curator versus educator). 2013. info
  • Der Ursprung des Museums : vom Sammeln. Edited by Krzysztof Pomian, Translated by Gustav Roßler. Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach, 1998, 108 s. ISBN 9783803123022. info
  • SCHLERETH, Thomas J. Cultural history and material culture : everyday life, landscapes, museums. Edited by Kenneth L. Ames. 1st pbk. ed. London: University Press of Virginia, 1992, 440 s. ISBN 0813913969. info
  • Das Museum der Zukunft : 43 Beiträge zur Diskussion über die Zukunft des Museums. Edited by Gerhard Bott. Köln: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1970. info
Teaching methods
lecture, seminar discussion, excursions, continuous active participation, preparating and presentating own projects
Assessment methods
written test, presentation of own projects, active participation, form of participation in seminars and visits of institutions, form of project solution, necessary attendance 80%
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Spring 2024.
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