The Museum in the Dilemma of Autonomy of Art

The article aims to analyze the mutually contradictive relationship between the institutionalization of art and its autonomy in tandem with museum. After the modernity, the museum and the art has experienced a process of reflexive identification, thus ended up an inevitable dependency. The museum-art, namely art work defined by the museum or vice versa, increases the questions about the autonomy of each sphere. In this context, the article will focus on the art’s challenge to regain its autonomy in the museum, as a contestation zone. Thus, the article will analyze the effect of the museum in the formation of counter-culture emerged from avangards’ resistance towards formalist perspective and the aura of art. After 1970s, the process of the institutionalization of counter-culture by Neo-Avangards via museum will be evaluated, accordingly the perseverance of the autonomy of art vis-à-vis the institution. Consequently, it is acknowledged the necessity of a network of institutions, which grasps the autonomy, to free the art from its everlasting dilemma of autonomy and institution