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The Museum in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis of the National Model and the Emergence of Decentralised Structures

Working paper — Museum Studies / Public Law

An inquiry into the structural pressures confronting the classical national museum model, charting the emergence of distributed and post-national institutional configurations in response to political, financial, and epistemic crises.

The Institution Without Territory: A Legal Theory of the Post-National Museum

Working paper — Museum Law

A legal-theoretical framework for conceptualising museums that operate beyond the jurisdictional and symbolic boundaries of the nation-state, drawing on public international law, heritage law, and institutional theory.

The DAO as a New Form of Governance: Potentialities and Limits

Working paper — Governance / Web3

A critical assessment of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations as candidate models for cultural governance, examining their constitutional logic, democratic potential, and structural contradictions when applied to public institutions.

The Decentralised Museum: Web3 Governance Frameworks and the Case of the Centre Pompidou

Working paper — Museum Studies / Web3

A case study examining how blockchain-based governance frameworks interact with the institutional architecture of a major public museum, using the Centre Pompidou as a test for the applicability of decentralised models.

How the Reinvented Centre Pompidou Can Reboot Digital Art

Right Click Save — August 7, 2026

Having spent five decades acquiring and championing forward-looking art, the Centre Pompidou now finds itself closed for renovation and its collection dispersed across venues worldwide. This piece argues that this position of displacement may in fact make the institution uniquely suited to engage with digital and web3 art going forward.

Distributed Curation Between Cultural Democracy and Expert Authority: Toward a Hybrid Governance Model for the Decentralized Museum

Working paper — Curatorial Theory / Governance

An exploration of the tension between participatory curation and expert authority within decentralised institutions, proposing a hybrid governance architecture that preserves epistemic standards while broadening democratic legitimacy.

Convergence as Surrealist Principle: Against Fragmentation, Toward Union in Esaias Thorén's The Red Evening (1936)

Working paper — Art History / Halmstadgruppen

A close reading of Esaias Thorén's The Red Evening as a manifesto of convergence within Swedish Surrealism, arguing that the Halmstadgruppen's collective logic resists the isolating tendency of orthodox Surrealist practice in favour of a unifying pictorial and philosophical programme.