ABSTRACT
The travelling exhibition Bewogen Beweging/Rörelse i konsten/Bevægelse i kunsten (“Art in motion,” Stedelijk Museum, Moderna Museet, and Louisiana Museum 1961) appears as a key event in the postwar European art world and a stepping stone in the formation of the “curated exhibition” within the art museum. As a co-creation by artists and museum curators (the credits are still being negotiated in distinctly different narratives among its host institutions), Art in Motion was both aimed at representing the contemporary condition (the “almost violent dynamic of our time” in the words of Pontus Hultén) and proposing a new perspective on the history of modern art with a theme—movement—as a turning point and lens. The chapter analyzes the exhibition as a museological experiment, the aim of which was to move the museum itself—a prevailing theme in the debate on the role of the “new museums” in the day.
