ART PRACTICES IN MUSEUMS OF WESTERN UKRAINE - FROM SUBJECT TO METHOD

The study highlights the dominant strategies and specific practices of museum representation of contemporary art in the museological field, which is still considered marginal in the field of classical art history and traditionally relies on chronological coverage of art history. However, namely the representation in the museum space allows moving from a general historical narrative to local discourses of art at the turn of the millennium, and the methods of representation thus transform the museum from a place of preservation to a place of new art. The relationship between the representation and musealization of current artistic practices of the late 20th - early 21stcentury as an intervention or collaboration with the museum space, methods of creating new thematic exhibitions, creating alternative institutions with museum functions is highlighted. In this context, ways of representing the latest art, the use of practices as new exhibition methods, institutional transformations are presented on the examples of museums in Western Ukraine.