Index – March 2025

The extensive program of activities accompanying the exhibition continues throughout the last weeks of CALL IT MUSEUM. Some events that’ve already taken place includes a book release with Paul O’Neill, showcasing two new publications Curious (Open Editions, London, 2024) and Not Going at It Alone: Collective Curatorial Curating (Apexart, New York, 2024). Furthermore, in the end of January Magdalena Malm, Emmeli Person (representatives for Bildkonst Sverige), and Miriam Andersson-Blecher, Erik Annerborn (representatives for Klister) held a conversation about the role of “the other institutions”, the possible dialogues and positions from where to define and work with artistic content. The latest event was a talk with Giovanna Esposito Yussif about The Museum of Impossible Forms, which is a cultural center and the coming together of communities of art and cultural workers working to build anticolonial, anti-patriarchal, and non-fascist commitments and futures.

CALL IT MUSEUM remains open until Sunday, 23 March.

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SAHAB MUSEUM: How to build a museum in Gaza
6 March 2025, 18:00

Today, the extensive program of CALL IT MUSEUM continues with a presentation by Hawaf collective about their project Sahab Museum.

Hawaf collective is a multidisciplinary collective founded by Gazan and French artists, architects, developers and thinkers that has gathered remotely and physically since 2021 around the idea of (re)building a community in order to build a museum in Gaza – the Sahab Imaginary Museum. Hawaf sees imagination in common as a tool for creation and emancipation, giving visibility to Gazan artists and breaking out of isolation. Sahab Museum is a way of preserving the past, rethinking the present and looking to the future.

Hawaf is composed of 4 founding members, 1 architect and 3 artists: Gaza-based visual artist Mohamed Abusal, Gennevilliers-based visual artist Mohamed Bourouissa, Gaza-based architect Sondos El-Nakhala and Sweden-based visual artist Salman Nawati. New members have joined Hawaf in 2022: artist Andres Burbano, based in Paris and researcher Marion Slitine, based in Marseille.

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The Ideology of the Museum Computer Network: Talk with Kim West
13 March 2025, 18:00

As part of CALL IT MUSEUM, Kim West will talk about The Museum Computer Network.

The Museum Computer Network was an organization founded in New York in 1967, with the purpose of experimenting with ways of integrating emerging computer technology in the administration of museum collections and the planning of visitor experiences. In this talk Kim West presents some aspects of the organization’s early projects, and asks what the implications of those projects could be for contemporary museum and exhibitional practices.

Kim West is a critic, researcher, and editor, based in Stockholm. He is currently an Associate Professor at REMESO at Linköping University. Recent publications include The Autonomy of Art is Ordinary (Sternberg Press, 2024).

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Museum for Preventive Imagination: Talk with Luca Lo Pinto
21 March 2025, 18:00

Continuing the program of CALL IT MUSEUM is a talk with Luca Lo Pinto about the Museum for Preventive Imagination.

Museum for Preventive Imagination has been an extensive program at MACRO in Rome, a device in which to experience an elastic interdisciplinary structure putting artists and their thinking at the centre, and in which—alongside more traditional activities—experiments and projects with different spatial and temporal dimensions can coexist. The Museum for Preventive Imagination explores alternative models in which imagination can be the main driver for reflections on the purpose of artistic production and its reception.

Luca Lo Pinto is the artistic director of MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. From 2014 to 2019 he worked as curator of Kunsthalle Wien. He is co-founder of the magazine and publishing house NERO.

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The Future Futures Talk Show launches in Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki

The “launching tour” of The Future Futures Talk Show continues. In the beginning of February ITAB (Index Teen Advisory Board) presented the talk show at the cultural policy assembly Folk & Kultur. Continuing at Index, ITAB hosted an immersive screening of The Future Futures Talkshow: The Battle of the Narrative with behind-the-scenes material, Q&A and a confession booth, reality-show style!

Last week a launch was held in Oslo by PRAKSIS and PTAB (Praksis Teen Advisory Board) at Kunstnernes Hus Kino. Lastly, this Saturday, PUBLICS and PUBLICS Youth Advisory Board will host a screening of the talk show.

The talk show is about gaze, images and power produced by Index Teen Advisory Board, Praksis Teen Advisory Board and Publics Youth Advisory Board, in the Future Futures network. With support from Erasmus+ Youth programme of the European Union

Ongoing Research Process: Institutional Temperature

For the past few years Index has contucted research with desire to rethink the institutional framework. Index implements this research process to define ways of working today from an institutional point of view. In 2024, Index organized a meeting with representatives from several institutions at ARCO art fair in Madrid, sharing thoughts and ways of doing at Kadist Paris, Hangar (Barcelona), Fluent (Santander), Belleza y Felicidad (Buenos Aires), EACC (Castelló). In 2025 we continue establishing dialogues with other institutions and practitioners to explore new definitions for the institutional framework.

Part of this research process is developed in practice during the exhibition CALL IT MUSEUM.

During ARCO Art Fair in Madrid 2025, Index director Marti Manen leads a meeting with artistic agents responsible for advanced institutional proposals at the fair. We would like to thank ARCO for facilitating aspects of this research process.

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