Museum practitioners from all over Indonesia present their curatorial concepts.
The program
Storytelling in Museums – a Curatorial Workshop engages with a relevant and urgent topic for museums in Indonesia: How to develop content strategies in museums that are engaging, relevant and practical to different communities and the large public.
By the end of a four day workshop in cooperation with the Makassar Biennale Foundation, the participants, consisting of curators, museums experts and exhibition makers, will present theirs approaches and discuss with invited guests and the interested public.
The hands-on workshop is facilitated by Annissa M Gultom (Indonesian Museologist), Paul Spies (Director of Stadtmuseum Berlin/City Museum Berlin), Puawai Cairns (Head of Mātauranga Māori/Māori Collection at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa), and gives strategies for the content development and design of exhibitions. During lectures from the facilitators and Indonesian art curators, anthropologists and historians, as well as site visits to museums in Makassar the participants will engage with locally relevant topics like multiculturalism and cultural identity. Also the processing of those topics to exhibitions will be discussed based on study cases.
The curatorial workshop is a follow-up of the multiyear exchange program Transitioning Museums in Southeast Asia connecting museum practitioners throughout Asia Pacific and Europe to discuss contemporary questions and challenges of museums in the ethnically, culturally and religiously diverse Asia Pacific region and Europe.
===
Annissa M Gultom (Indonesian museologist) has been involved in different aspects of museum practice since 2002. Equipped with an MA in Museum Communication, she further focused on storytelling, curating and content development in museums. She has exhibited in Indonesia since 2006 as well as in Southeast Asia and Europe. She is currently the Director for the National Museum of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. Her exposure to different museum contexts and strategies in storytelling provide her with a broad range of insights for the workshop.
Paul Spies (Director of the Stadtmuseum Berlin/Berlin City Museum) is experienced in the fields of museum concepts, exhibitions and organization. Developed together with critical friends and communities, his latest project “Berlin and the World” exhibition in the Humboldt Forum invites the audience to trace the developments and relationships, both past and present, that connect Berlin and the world. He is currently designing a large 5-year project (2020-2024) with decolonizing activists in Berlin on eye level.
Puawai Cairns (Head of the Mātauranga Māori/Māori Collection at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) is specialized in contemporary Maori social history and advocates community-centered curatorial practice. She has a particular interest in increasing and enhancing Māori representation and participation across the heritage sector. Puawai is excited to be given the challenge to oversee the major conceptual and architectural redevelopment of the Māori galleries at Te Papa over the next five years.
Back
