The first ICOFOM monograph of 2026 is published!

“Hidden Stories, Entangled Spaces: Contested Island Heritage and Contemporary Art Curation”, edited by Ana S. González Rueda and Karen Brown; is a publication that emerged from the Transnational Island Museologies conference (2024), co-organised by ICOFOM and the University of St Andrews as part of the Shared Island Stories research project.

Departing from Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa’s provocation that turns ‘island’ into a verb in one of her poems, and thinking on what it means ‘to island’ in contemporary art curation, this publication explores how an urgent, connective, sustainable, and caring mindset informs exhibition-making today.

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