Main Curatorial Strategies in the Contemporary Late ХХth - Early XXIst Century Fine Arts in Europe
The article for the first time in the national art history outlines basic curatorial strategies and represented curatorial practices in the contemporary fine arts of the late XXth - early XXIst centuries. The author’s art history research of major exhibitions of the contemporary fine art of the late XXth - early XXIst centuries in Europe allowed us to identify main curatorial strategies of the contemporary art of this period and to propose their classification: 1) institutionalization of art and curatorial practices; 2) representation of contemporary curatorial practices; 3) identification of the potential of contemporary art;4) curatorial research. The article used definite examples of significant exhibitions and contemporary fine art projects to reveal the main strategies used by leading European curators. The curatorial research has been defined as the leading curatorial strategy of the latest decades. Some directions of the curatorial research strategies have been revealed and described, such as comprehension of visual experience of the XXth century, curatorial presentation of the contemporary art of the mid XXth - early XXIst centuries, representation of local contexts of contemporary art. It has been found out that curators often employ several strategies simultaneously over the course of their many years of activity, such as institutionalization of art and curatorial practices as well as curatorial research.