Talk:
Carlos Mínguez Carrasco
Salt Beyoğlu, Online
March 24, 2026 18.30
ArkDes Collection exhibition view, 2024
Photo: Marco Cappelletti
Photo: Marco Cappelletti
Architect and curator Carlos Mínguez Carrasco will give a talk as part of the Trash program at Salt Beyoğlu. He will focus on reuse as a core institutional practice, exploring how archival thinking and sustainable workflows can reshape exhibition infrastructure.
The talk will present ideas on how exhibition design can address the curatorial and conservation needs of fragile collections, positioning display systems as active tools that shape research questions, object selection, and collaboration. Here, design is considered not as a final layer but as an integrated component of the exhibition making, expanding how collections are made accessible, including open research conducted in front of the public.
Drawing on reuse practices at ArkDes, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm, Mínguez Carrasco will highlight sustainable approaches to exhibition architecture and modular systems, addressing both the advantages and logistical challenges of reuse systems across long-term collection displays and temporary exhibitions. The discussion will also reflect on what happens after an exhibition closes—storage, circulation, and maintenance—and consider how archival thinking informs reuse, positioning exhibitions as temporary activations of the archive.
The talk will be held in English and is open to everyone. The program will take place online via Zoom and will be broadcast live at Salt Beyoğlu. Please register here for online participation. No registration is required for in-person attendance at Salt Beyoğlu.
Carlos Mínguez Carrasco is an architect and curator, currently serving as Chief Curator at ArkDes. He was previously Associate Curator at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and Assistant Curator of OfficeUS, the U.S. Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. He also co-organized the Oslo Architecture Triennale in 2016 with the After Belonging Agency. At ArkDes, Mínguez Carrasco oversees exhibitions, public programs, publications, and collections. Between 2021 and 2024, he led the museum’s content reorganization and reopening in September 2024, launching a new exhibition program and rethinking how the collection is displayed and researched. His curatorial projects include: Flying Panels (2019), Kiruna Forever (2020), ArkDes Collection (2024), and Girjegumpi: The Sámi Architecture Library, presented at the Nordic Countries Pavilion of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2023. He has edited several publications on architecture, belonging, performance, and natural resources, and has taught at Columbia GSAPP.
The program is realized with the support of Jotun.
The talk will present ideas on how exhibition design can address the curatorial and conservation needs of fragile collections, positioning display systems as active tools that shape research questions, object selection, and collaboration. Here, design is considered not as a final layer but as an integrated component of the exhibition making, expanding how collections are made accessible, including open research conducted in front of the public.
Drawing on reuse practices at ArkDes, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm, Mínguez Carrasco will highlight sustainable approaches to exhibition architecture and modular systems, addressing both the advantages and logistical challenges of reuse systems across long-term collection displays and temporary exhibitions. The discussion will also reflect on what happens after an exhibition closes—storage, circulation, and maintenance—and consider how archival thinking informs reuse, positioning exhibitions as temporary activations of the archive.
The talk will be held in English and is open to everyone. The program will take place online via Zoom and will be broadcast live at Salt Beyoğlu. Please register here for online participation. No registration is required for in-person attendance at Salt Beyoğlu.
Carlos Mínguez Carrasco is an architect and curator, currently serving as Chief Curator at ArkDes. He was previously Associate Curator at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and Assistant Curator of OfficeUS, the U.S. Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. He also co-organized the Oslo Architecture Triennale in 2016 with the After Belonging Agency. At ArkDes, Mínguez Carrasco oversees exhibitions, public programs, publications, and collections. Between 2021 and 2024, he led the museum’s content reorganization and reopening in September 2024, launching a new exhibition program and rethinking how the collection is displayed and researched. His curatorial projects include: Flying Panels (2019), Kiruna Forever (2020), ArkDes Collection (2024), and Girjegumpi: The Sámi Architecture Library, presented at the Nordic Countries Pavilion of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2023. He has edited several publications on architecture, belonging, performance, and natural resources, and has taught at Columbia GSAPP.
The program is realized with the support of Jotun.
