The Danish art museums, art galleries and exhibition venues have an important and absolutely central role as culture-carrying and culture-promoting institutions. Therefore, they also have an obligation to embrace and represent the nuanced composition of the entire population in their work with artists in their exhibitions, collections, activities, communication and research.
This is the background for a series of recommendations that the Association of Visual Artists is launching today. The recommendations must make it possible to ensure diversity, equality and real inclusion in the Danish art institutions, and we hope that the institutions will take the recommendations to heart, so that together we can take responsibility for a binding and lasting change.
The recommendations must be seen as a constructive conversation with our collaboration partners at the institutions and in the field in general, which can hopefully lead to a common code or concrete tools that can create real change in the Danish art institutions.
Read the recommendations here.
Read the debate post by Marie Thams in Culture monitor.
Listen to the feature on 21 August in Kulturen on P1 here (after 44.44 min.).
Photo at top: SMK Fridays. Photo: Malthe Ivarsson