An exhibition catalogue and a review of all the mediation, residency and circulation activities at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco... with some fifty stickers to choose from and stick on.
The LABs allow visitors to see the museum in the form of a "laboratory' in which its missions (to collect, study, communicate, produce, conserve and transmit) are the subject of reflection, experimentation and innovation.
In 2015, the first LAB the NMNM was titled "Behind the scenes at the museum'. In 2018, LAB#2 invited artists to query the very definition of a museum and even its structure.
In 2025, the NMNM proposes to place the spotlight on its public programmes focusing on artists and the transmission they place at the heart of their work. «AGORA, La place du musée» was a collaborative, inclusive, participatory and experimental project: it required a book to meet these challenges.
How can a catalogue be documented when the exhibitions and mediation projects it describes are still in progress as it goes to print? Which image should be chosen? What topics should receive closer attention in the documentation? What format should be used? Is it possible to integrate information that only becomes known after the book is published?
Taking as a starting point questions that guided the conception of this publication, we have preferred to allow its readers to make their own contributions to different chapters, so that they can personalise them to suit their personal sensibility and outlook, and to correspond to their relationship with the book as an object, and with the format of a museum exhibition or art collection.
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco in 2025.
