Curating a ‘Living Museum’: Art and Justice Interactions at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

In 2019, the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina launched an open call, inviting artists, practitioners, art historians and researchers to interact with its extensive collection of socialist-era artworks and in the process launching a ‘Living Museum’. Based on close analysis of two exhibitions that resulted from the open call, this article demonstrates how the turn to the arts and the local turn in transitional justice converged to bring the past, present and future into dialogue in a new type of justice interaction.