My thesis joins the discourse on the curatorial shift by taking the MaDok LABOR, a pop-up gallery space ran by the Museum of Ethnography in 2014, as a case study. For the past 20 years, MaDok has been providing a network for addressing contemporaneity from an ethnological perspective, through experimental projects. Working within concepts of new museology, I carefully and critically analyze the radical notion of the curatorial ambitions recognized in the LABOR gallery. To support the understanding of said radical notion, I introduce the a broader context of the curatorial shift and the framework in which my case study's curatorial mission positions itself. I aim to provide an outlook on how the international discourse can be put to practice in a local context.