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| Manifesta Journal | |
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| Title | Manifesta Journal |
| Category | Art journal |
Manifesta Journal is an international periodical associated with contemporary Manifesta that documents practices in contemporary art and curatorial research, connecting biennial programming with critical discourse. It functions as a platform for essays, interviews, and project documentation that link artists, curators, and institutions across cities, museums, galleries, archives, festivals, and research centers. The journal situates local practices within transnational networks involving artists, curators, critics, and cultural institutions.
The journal emerged alongside the traveling Manifesta biennial movement, intersecting with institutional shifts at Van Abbemuseum, Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, and Stedelijk Museum during debates about curatorial practice. Early issues engaged with conferences and symposia held at Serpentine Galleries, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Fondazione Prada, and Fondazione Emilio G. Segrè. Its formation paralleled initiatives at Walker Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, New Museum, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, and K21 Ständehaus Düsseldorf. Over editions the journal has referenced exhibitions at Documenta, Venice Biennale, Frieze Art Fair, Skulptur Projekte Munster, Whitney Biennial, and Berlin Biennale while dialoguing with archives and collections at Rijksmuseum, British Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Guggenheim Museum, and Palazzo Grassi.
Editorial teams have included curators, scholars, and critics active at Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, Columbia University, Yale University, University of Oxford, and Harvard University. Contributors have held affiliations with Sotheby's Institute of Art, ICA London, MOCA Los Angeles, Castello di Rivoli, Kunsthalle Basel, and MAXXI Roma. Guest editors and authors have included figures who have also worked at Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Cité Internationale des Arts, CalArts, Pratt Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, and Ecole des Beaux-Arts. The advisory board has drawn on professionals from Serralves Museum, Kunstmuseum Basel, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Hamburger Bahnhof, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Content spans critical essays, interviews, project reports, and translated texts addressing practices from artists and institutions such as Ai Weiwei, Olafur Eliasson, Marina Abramović, Cindy Sherman, Anish Kapoor, Yayoi Kusama, Tino Sehgal, Gerhard Richter, Paul McCarthy, Kara Walker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeff Koons, Tracey Emin, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rachel Whiteread, Maurizio Cattelan, Stanley Brouwn, Chantal Akerman, Isa Genzken, Julie Mehretu, Camille Henrot, Theaster Gates, Hito Steyerl, Adrian Piper, Kader Attia, Vik Muniz, Nan Goldin, William Kentridge, Sheela Gowda, Zanele Muholi, Tomas Saraceno, Raqs Media Collective, Mark Bradford, Khaled Jarrar, Do Ho Suh and institutions such as British Council, UNESCO, European Cultural Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. Thematic issues engage with urbanism as seen in projects tied to Barcelona Pavilion, Rotterdam Port, Bilbao Guggenheim Project, Athens Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, and São Paulo Art Biennial; memory studies linked to Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Yad Vashem, The Imperial War Museum, Tate Britain, and National Gallery; and ecology referenced alongside Greenpeace, WWF, Extinction Rebellion, ICLEI, and Friends of the Earth. It routinely cross-references exhibitions, performative works, catalogues, and monographs from publishers and institutions such as Phaidon Press, Tate Publishing, MIT Press, Sternberg Press, Afterall, and Ringier.
The journal has been published in print and digital formats, distributed through museum shops at MoMA PS1, Neue Nationalgalerie, V&A, Kunsthalle Wien, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki Art Museum, and via academic outlets at Bibliothèque nationale de France, German National Library, Library of Congress, National Diet Library, and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. It circulates at art fairs and bookshops associated with Book Fair Prague, Frankfurt Book Fair, London Art Book Fair, Independent Art Book Fair, Paris Photo, and in networks connected to International Council of Museums, ICOMOS, AICA, and Cultural Contact Point offices. Translation collaborations have involved teams linked to UNESCO, European Commission, Goethe-Institut, British Council, Spanish Ministry of Culture, and Italian Cultural Institute.
Scholars and critics in outlets related to Artforum, Frieze, Modern Painters, The Burlington Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde, Die Zeit, El País, La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, El País Brasil, Artnet, and Hyperallergic have debated the journal's role in shaping curatorial discourse. Its essays have been cited in seminars at Courtauld Institute of Art, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, Goldsmiths, University of Toronto, and The University of Melbourne. Impact assessments reference partnerships with policy bodies such as European Cultural Parliament, Council of Europe, European Commission Directorate-General for Education and Culture, and networks including Transnational Institute and Open City initiatives.
Related initiatives involve partnerships with biennials, museums, and research programs including Manifesta Foundation projects, collaborative exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Fondazione Merz, Triennale Milano, Seoul Museum of Art, Shanghai Biennale, Biennale of Sydney, Gwangju Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, and research fellowships at Institute for Contemporary Arts Singapore, Asia Art Archive, Asia-Europe Foundation, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, European Cultural Foundation, Delfina Foundation, and Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Cross-disciplinary workshops have been run with universities and institutes such as Bard College, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Sciences Po, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Centre for Research Architecture, and Smithsonian Institution Research Information System.
Category:Art magazines