Combining postcolonial studies, curating and contemporary art, this
book surveys the role played by artistic curatorship and
contemporary art museums in the shaping of identities and cultural
planning in contemporary Iberia. The book's main hypothesis is that
contemporary art has been pivotal in the construction of
contemporary Iberia, a process marked by the attention paid (in
heterogeneous, not always satisfactory ways) to the entanglement of
the legacies of colonialism and the present-day status of Iberian
territories as cosmopolitan societies now integrated in the
European Union. We argue that, at least from the 1990s, curating
emerged as a key activity for Iberian societies to display and
configure an image of themselves as modern and fully integrated in
the European cultural landscape. Such an image, however, had to
cope with the legacies of colonialism and the profound
socioeconomic transformations of these societies. This book is
concerned with bringing together, while redefining and expanding,
Iberian and curatorial studies.
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