Curating Across Borders: Post-Digital Art Ecologies and the Reconfiguration of Cultural Identity

Résumé

This article examines how transnational curatorial practice, developed within postdigital art ecologies, contributes to the reconfiguration of cultural identity in cross-border collaborative contexts. It proceeds from the premise that the post-digital condition does not merely denote the presence of technology, but rather its structural integration into contemporary cultural practices. The study investigates three distinct contexts: the online pavilion “Transient Info”, integrated into The Wrong Biennale; the simultaneous exhibitions organised by Art on Loop – HollyArt Gallery across multiple cities and countries; and the international programming of Cista Arts. Adopting a qualitative practice-based approach grounded in artistic and curatorial research, the study combines curatorial discourse analysis, multimodal analysis of artworks, and situated critical reflection. These cases configure distributed art ecologies in which curatorship operates as a form of intercultural mediation and where cultural identity emerges as a dynamic, relational, and negotiated process. The findings demonstrate that, by curating and producing art across borders, post-digital platforms reconfigure geographical centralities, challenge hegemonic cultural narratives, and foster hybrid spaces of belonging and dialogue. Cultural identity is no longer articulated as a fixed or territorially bounded entity, but as a performative construction within transnational networks of artistic creation and circulation. The article contributes to intercultural studies by proposing a critical reading of contemporary curatorship as a practice capable of reshaping cultural imaginaries under post-digital conditions.