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.
