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)

Research Threads

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

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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L'Internationale Confederation

Statement in support of documenta fifteen

Vasyl Cherepanyn
Vasyl Cherepanyn

Cancelling Russia? That’s just the start

L’Internationale Talks

Recordings of lectures and discussions

Library

e-Books and Publications

Programmes

Currently in focus: MONOCULTURE

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.

March 9-11, 2022

The Democracy Pavilion

Plans for the Democracy Pavilion were first drawn up in late 2021. However, with the current Russian army's invasion of Ukraine in our minds, L’Internationale association wanted to use this platform (…)

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 (…)

About

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.