The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989

{{Short description|2011 exhibition}}

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The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989 was an exhibition held at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in 2011–2012. This exhibition proposed theory that global art as a distinct paradigm shift that develops in the post-1989 period and the start of no longer thinking: to not think about the West as the single model to be applied worldwide.{{Cite web|title=The Global Contemporary {{!}} 17.09.2011 (All day) to 19.02.2012 (All day) {{!}} ZKM|url=https://zkm.de/en/exhibition/2011/09/the-global-contemporary|access-date=2021-07-27|website=zkm.de|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Arts Worlds|url=https://artreview.com/book-review-the-global-contemporary-and-the-rise-of-new-art-worlds/|access-date=2021-07-27|website=artreview.com|language=en}}{{Cite thesis|last=Rattray|first=Michael Frederick|url=https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/978256/|title=Functional Anarchism(s) and the Theory of Global Contemporary Art|publisher=Concordia University|year=2014|pages=223|type=PhD thesis}}