Alexander Geurds

This exhibition, created by six European Museums, invites visitors to explore the notion of modernity. (...) This idea is expressed via several themes: criticism of the legacy of ethnography museums through contemporary art.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Fetish Modernity, organised as part of the European project 'Ethnography Museums & World Cultures'. The exhibition will be presented in Tervuren from 8 April to 4 September 2011 and will travel to five partner museums until 2014. Lead Museum: Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium). Partner Museums: Musée du quai Branly (France), Pitt RivThis publication has been produced for the exhibition Fetish Modernity, organised as part of the European project 'Ethnography Museums & World Cultures'. The exhibition will be presented in Tervuren from 8 April to 4 September 2011 and will travel to five partner museums until 2014. Lead Museum: Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium). Partner Museums: Musée du quai Branly (France), Pitt Rivers Museum (England), Müseum für Völkerkunde (Austria), National Museums of World Culture (Sweden), National Museum of Ethnology (Museum Volkenkunde) (Netherlands), Museo de America (Spain), Naprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures (Czech Republic), National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography "L.Pigorini" (Italy), Linden-Museum Stuttgart (Germany). Associate Partners: Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève (Switzerland), The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (USA), Diaspora Association Plus au Sud (Belgium), La Cambre-ISACF (Belgium).… (more)