L’Internationale Online is the common platform for research, debate and communication for the confederation L’Internationale and its partner institutions: MG+MSUM (Ljubljana), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), MACBA (Barcelona), M HKA (Antwerp), SALT (Istanbul & Ankara), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), MSN (Warsaw) / NCAD (Dublin), HDK-Valand (Gothenburg)

Current Issue

Degrowth and Progress
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Research Threads

Commissioned texts, visual essays and conversations on questions of power, resistance and the critical potential of art

Real Democracy

What would real democracy look, feel and act like today? In recent years, social movements throughout the world have been spurred by an urge for new forms of democratic representation. Yet, whilst (…)

Decolonising Practices

Internationalism today necessarily involves an awareness of the colonial structure of power relations and of symbolic production in contemporary global societies. By colonial we designate both the (…)

Alter Institutionality

This research thread seeks to revitalise the recent discourses and desires for rethinking institutions. It is an ongoing conversation that often starts by exploring the effects of bureaucratisation (…)

Politics of Life and Death

The concepts of biopolitics and necropolitics have become fundamental in understanding the contemporary political management of bodies and populations within the context of global neoliberal economy. (…)

Opinions

Responses to current political and cultural debates
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Gergely Nagy

Magyarország: a kulturális politikai helyzet és ami kivezethet belőle

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Eduardo Carrera

Un Ejército de Amantes (Marrones y Negros) No Puede Perder.

L’Internationale Talks

Recordings of lectures and discussions

Library

e-Books and Publications

Programmes

Currently in focus: Artists in Quarantine

L’Internationale is a confederation of nine modern and contemporary art institutions focused on a non-hierarchical and decentralised internationalism. Our programme of projects is based on the values of difference and horizontal exchange between constellations of cultural agents, both locally rooted and globally connected.

June 2018 - May 2022

Our Many Europes

Our Many Europes (OME) is a four-year programme focusing on the 1990s: the decade contemporary Europe was born. Europe expanded and diversified when technology and post-Cold War politics turned the (…)

June 2013 - April 2018

The Uses of Art

The Uses of Art (UoA) proposes new readings of European art history for the broader public. This new perspective on the past is anchored in the long history of civil society, tracing it back to the (…)

October 2010 - October 2012

1957-1986. Art from the Decline of Modernism to the Rise of Globalisation

This was the first project organised within the framework of L'Internationale, a transnational organisation founded in 2009 in order to instigate new narratives, latitudes and chronologies of the art (…)

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L'Internationale Online

L’Internationale Online is a platform for research and debate on urgent matters in the expanded field of contemporary art. It has been initiated by the confederation L’Internationale as a space where commissioned texts, research and artistic projects, as well as curated exhibitions drawing on the collections and archives of the member institutions, are published.