Malene Vest Hansen

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Primary fields of research

Art history in the 20th and 21st Century: modern and contemporary art; visual art and its publics with special focus on curating, museum and exhibition history. 

Current research

I investigate changing concepts of art, curating of exhibitions and the role of museums. Presently, I am PI and conduct the art history research project: Curating the contemporary: An Exhibiting History of the Museum of Modern Art as a new Bildung institution (Funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research FKK1-project 2019-2023). The project is following up on my work as PI of the interdisciplinary Research Network for Studies in the Curatorial,( funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research 2015-2017), the network gathered international, primarily Nordic, researchers and curators from both academia and museums and exhibitionary institutions, one important output of this is the anthology Curatorial Challenges: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Curating (Routledge 2019).

Teaching

I teach Contemporary art (on a regular basis (Art History BA, modul 1) and also teach and advise in the following areas:

• curating and museum studies
• exhibition history
• contemporary art and modern art and theories
• feminist art history and theori
• art in public space
• conceptual art
• history painting (Nicolas Poussin)