Curatorial Ethics

The discussion will be held in Polish.

‘Ethics’ is a word that we hear more and more frequently in museums. It is associated with concepts such as responsibility, care, solidarity and justice. What does this term mean when applied to an institution such as a contemporary art museum? How can we define the relationship between the curator and the artist, and between the curator and the institution? It is worth returning to the great debate on the role of exhibition curators that we followed ten years ago, and considering what the function of the curator is today and what the expectations are of their role. What is the curator’s responsibility to the institution, to the collection, to the artists and to the audience? Is there a set of unwritten rules, or is this rather a matter of the individual ethics of specific people performing specific functions?

We have invited curators working in or with museums to join the conversation. The discussion will be moderated by Adam Budak and Katarzyna Jagodzińska.

Part of the series: Museum and Care