The Modern Museum – an Anthropocene Institution, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, March 19, 2024

Lecture at Site and Place – Seminar of Mechtild Widrich, Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, March 19, 2024

The Anthropocene resulted from the ideas of the Enlightenment. The very same ideas were foundational for the modern institution of the museum, in which the history of planet Earth and the interrelationships of life in the world, as determined by the Anthropocene, can be seen and researched from today’s perspective.