Institutional critique after 1960s, alternative institutional practices and possibility of new institutional critique in contemporary condition.

This thesis focus on institutional critique, which use to define practice of critical art works and interventions, reflect on art institutions that emerged in America and Europe in the late 60s, and also impacts on contemporary art institutions. In addition, this study also tries to discuss the affects and relationships with recent critical art practice. The thesis, in the beginning tries to develop an aspect about notion of institution. In this context, on the basis of works of Cornelius Castoriadis and John R. Searle on notion of institution, focus on origins, process and operations of contemporary social, economic and political institutions. In the light of these discussions, this work investigates institutional practice and its imprint on current art institutions through the works of artists such as Michael Asher, Robert Smithson, Daniel Buren, Hans Haacke, Marcel Broodthaers, Andrea Fraser, Renee Green, Christian Philipp Müller and Fred Wilson who has important place in institutional critique practice. In addition, this study argues emerging critical art practices that target art institutions in current conditions whether contain an possibility in the context of new institutional critique.