FAIR ENOUGH by ART COLOGNE + TEXTE ZUR KUNST #3

FAIR ENOUGH is a podcast series by ART COLOGNE in collaboration
with the journal TEXTE ZUR KUNST. Presented by Micaela Dixon, FAIR
ENOUGH brings together artists, curators, writers, and thinkers to
reflect on how art and its institutions are responding to the
urgencies of our present moment. This season marks the 35th
anniversary of TEXTE ZUR KUNST. Here, the journal's motto for the
year is taken up, there is no art without criticism. Each episode
returns to a past issue of the journal to revisit the debates it
sparked and to consider how those questions continue to shape the
cultural and political landscape today. 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.