ABSTRACT
Since the 1970s, alternative exhibition spaces and well-established contemporary art museums have worked to enhance and examine the relationship between cultural centers and their communities. In more recent years, a growing number of artists and architects have launched similar initiatives designed to reinforce and extend this commitment to service. By investigating such projects as the Hotel Transvaal (2006–8) and Kus & Sloop (2010–14), both artist-run nonprofit hotels intending to aid the interim condition brought about by large-scale urban renewal in the Netherlands, this chapter considers those individuals and collectives establishing nonprofit organizations and spaces as artworks. It asserts that while the nonprofit status does formalize a set of operations at work within some “social practice” artworks, neither the nonprofit status nor “social practice” amounts to social entrepreneurship.
