CIVICIZE INSTITUTIONS – OR HOW TO NURTURE A PUBLIC-SPIRITED PLACE? BY MATYLDA KRZYKOWSKI

CIVICIZE INSTITUTIONS – OR HOW TO NURTURE A PUBLIC-SPIRITED PLACE? BY MATYLDA KRZYKOWSKI

A SHORT, OVERDUE SUMMARY OF A LONG STORY THAT WILL BE CONTINUED

In 2021 I co-curated the exhibition Institution Building at CIVA, an architecture and culture museum in Brussels. The exhibition was not ready when we opened, instead it grew over the course of eight weeks. We first started with an empty exhibition space and each Thursday added exhibits around a specific theme: Hospitality, Format, Collection, Audience, Agency, Pedagogy, Emancipation, Environment, Preservation, and Idiom. For each opening we invited a handful of people—most of them practitioners, some of them citizens, many of whom we got to know in these eight weeks—to speak about projects or works that were being exhibited.

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