Irene Campolmi: ‘Contemporary Aesth-Ethics – The Ethical Turn In 21st Century Art Institutions’ In recent years, art institutions have re-conceptualised ethics in relation to both artistic and curatorial practice, emphasising the need for connecting curatorial experiments with society at large. Ethics has become a means for art museums to examine their social, cultural and aesthetic role as platforms for critical reflection, individual and collective cultivation and as democratic ‘spaces of action’. This paper explores the ethical dimensions of the art museum nowadays from an institutional, curatorial and research perspective.