FAIR ENOUGH by ART COLOGNE + TEXTE ZUR KUNST #3

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What role can museums play in a time of uncertainty, conflict, and change?

In this episode, Manuel Borja-Villel – curator, writer, and former Director of the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid) – reflects on the museum as a living institution: a space for memory, critique, and collective imagination. Speaking with Micaela Dixon, he discusses how art can resist institutional inertia, how collections can become political, and why the future of museums might depend less on expansion and more on care, collaboration, and slowness.

“A museum should not only preserve objects, but also open time – for dialogue, for doubt, for the unexpected.”

FAIR ENOUGH is the podcast series by ART COLOGNE and TEXTE ZUR KUNST, exploring how art and its institutions respond to the urgencies of our time.

Season 1 marks TEXTE ZUR KUNST’s 35th anniversary with the theme: There Is No Art Without Criticism.