Stories about Frames

Stories about Frames is a series of interventions throughout the exhibition space, realized as a system of labels that adapt to each particular exhibition by renewing the content of the labels. Texts on the labels focus on the years in which exhibited artworks were created in order to establish the links between artworks and selected art institutions from around the world. Instead of revealing the properties of the artworks, new texts point to the material reality of the art institutions, taking us beyond the boundaries of the exhibition space. The project thus creates a parallel history of contemporary art, based on the art institution rather then an artwork.

The basis for the Stories about Frames is a digital database in development that contains institutions of modern and contemporary art. It includes information such as when and where the institution was established, if and what kind of transformations, architectural extensions it underwent, etc. Is it privately or publicly funded? Does it have a collection? How large is the exhibition space?