Preface Maja Hoffmann. The curatorial conundrum introduction Paul O'Neill, Mick Wilson y Lucy Steeds. What to study? What is the future of exhibition histories? Or, toward art in terms of its becoming-public Lucy Steeds. Obstacles to exhibition history: institutions, curatorship and the undead nation-state David Teh. Under the sycamore tree curating as currency: actions that say something, words that do something Jelena Vesic y Vladimir Jeric. Black-british artists and problems of systemic invisibility and eradication: creating exhibition histories of that which is not there Eddie Chambers. The paradoxes of autonomy: a site of critique Nikita Yingqian Cai. Redrawing global aspirations of exhibition-making from a southern perspective: Latin American Biennal of Sao Paulo (1978) and Coloquio de Arte No-Objetual (1981) Miguel A. López. On the solo show: from resistance to repression Joao Ribas. On the case of curatorial history Jeannine Tang. What to research? The source of our nobility and our path to the highest things Luis Camnitzer. It is reading that counts Mélanie Bouteloup. Collectivity, conflict, imagination, transformation Galit Eilat. What do you want to know? What, how and for whom/WHW. The incomplete curator: AKA fighting the delinated field Liam Gillick. What to practice? An autodidact's practice: investigating the reserves of the curatorial moment Nancy Adajania. Startegic regionalism Tobias Ostrander. Beign Africa: contextual narratives of artistic enviroments Koyo Kouoh. How to put ourselves between the closing door and its frame? Zasha Cerizza Colah. Il faut qu'on se bouge! Sumesh Sharma. Digging into the past to unearth the future Hans Ulrich Obrist. In search of a flashlight: the intimate politics of the curatorial Vivian Ziherl. Qalqalah: falling out of memory Sarah Rifky.