The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds 1989
Global Art and the Museum (GAM) was launched by Peter Weibel and Hans Belting in 2006 at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Exhibition The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989 reception dates were from September 17, 2011 to February 5, 2012, it examined the way in which globalization, impacts various spheres of artistic production and reception. An attempt to grasp the process of globalization it is only being displayed by a snap-shot of a momentary condition. This exhibition holds 14 thematic sections that glimpses of a whole and plans to influence everyday day life, making the museum more contemporary and a place for experience. Some of the sections include Room of Histories, Art Spaces, Documents, Mapping, Branding, Transactions, World Time, Boundary Matters, Networks and Systems, Art as Commodity, Lost in Translation and more.
In addition, the exhibition is set up with artist-in- residence program with more than 12 international artists discussing the project and ways it help to improve the exhibition concepts. It is nice to see 12 different perspectives that come from different cultures and being combined all together or seeing a compromise. In this way it seems like this exhibition has a piece of every culture and people from those cultures can relate making this exhibition successful among its viewers.
Along with the exhibition, Global Art and the Museum hold other activities such as ZKM Global studies I, II, ZKM Summer Seminar, GAM Platforms, International Conferences and Publications that were held in the years of 2008-2011.