CIMAM News
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21 December 2022
Happy Holiday Season!
The Board, and the executive CIMAM team, would like to thank all of you who, year after year, make it possible for CIMAM to continue growing and becoming a reference among our community of professionals dedicated to modern and contemporary art institutions.
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21 December 2022
Save the date! 9 to 11 November
Victoria Noorthoorn, Director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, invites you to attend the next CIMAM Annual Conference in Buenos Aires from November 9-11, 2023, and to extend your stay in Argentina a few days longer!
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20 December 2022
CIMAM's new Board takes over the working groups!
During their honorary tenure, CIMAM Board members each contribute to practical and strategic working groups. Check out the new members of the CIMAM working groups!
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20 December 2022
Encounters with CIMAM by David Elliot
"Museums from the Inside: 60 Years of CIMAM": 21 interviews with former board chairs, donors, and curators, is now available on Hatje Cantz website. CIMAM members can purchase the book directly through the office at a special price of €20 + shipping expenses.
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18 December 2022
Welcome from the President of CIMAM
Suhanya Raffel, Director of M+ Hong Kong, was appointed CIMAM President for the 2023-25 period by the outgoing and newly elected Board members during the CIMAM 2022 Annual Conference that took place in Palma, Mallorca, Spain.
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16 December 2022
How was CIMAM 2022?
The highlights of the conference can be found here. Check out the video and photos of the CIMAM 2022 Annual Conference, hosted by Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma, Mallorca, Spain.
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16 December 2022
Adriano Pedrosa appointed curator of the Biennale Arte 2024
Adriano Pedrosa has been appointed with the specific task of curating the 60th International Art Exhibition (20 April > 24 November 2024).
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14 December 2022
Klaus Biesenbach on Museums in an Age of Crisis
The director of Neue Nationalgalerie speaks to frieze editor-in-chief Andrew Durbin about Just Stop Oil, Ukraine, and the future of Berlin. Published originally at Frieze and written by Andrew Durbin 17 Nov. 2022.
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12 December 2022
Call for Papers: Museums, sustainability and sustainable development
ICOM is preparing an issue of Museum International on the theme of Museums, sustainability and sustainable development (Vol. 74, Nº 297 – 298).
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5 December 2022
"For every 10,000 digital membership cards, the carbon footprint reduced per year would be about 1,433 pounds (650 kg) of CO2"
CIMAM interviews MuseumAnywhere, its supplier of the new digital membership cards, to learn about the carbon footprint reduction per year that this implementation represents
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1 December 2022
Forget the World Cup: Qatar kicks off a major museum-building programme
With a slew of institutions set to open by 2030, the country is putting itself on the global cultural map—but on its own terms. Written by Hannah McGivern. Originally published by The Art Newspaper, 30 November 2022.
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30 November 2022
Approved the new membership fees 2023–25
This initiative responds to CIMAM's aim to be more equitable and inclusive, with dues adjusted to the different geo-economic realities of professionals worldwide.
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25 November 2022
Outstanding Museum Practice Award Winners 2022
The CIMAM Board announces three museums as recipients of the second edition of the Outstanding Museum Practices Award during the CIMAM 2022 Annual Conference in Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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24 November 2022
The Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires will host the 55th edition of the CIMAM Annual Conference in 2023
The Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, under the auspices of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, will host the next Annual Conference of the International Committee of Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM) to be held in November 2023.
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24 November 2022
Museums from the Inside. 60 years of CIMAM
CIMAM makes available the book "Museums from the Inside: 60 Years of CIMAM", a reflection on the role of this organization in supporting modern and contemporary art museums, collections, and professionals over the last 60 years.
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22 November 2022
In search of another model for museums: rethinking their role beyond art
The 54th conference of CIMAM, the committee representing modern and contemporary museums, offers new models free of colonialism. Written by Ángeles García, and originally published by El País, 14 November 2022
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16 November 2022
The CIMAM's 54th Annual Conference ends with the appointment of Suhanya Raffel as President of CIMAM 2023-25
This year's CIMAM Annual Conference, hosted by Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma, was attended by more than 220 modern and contemporary art museum professionals from 49 countries to listen attentively and act in these times of post-pandemic, climate crisis, war, and resurgent conservative values.
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14 November 2022
CIMAM supports ICOM's Statement on Museums and Climate Activism
Mami Kataoka, President of CIMAM until 13 November 2022, suggested Friday 11 November that the media should not give visibility to protests against works of art. Published originally by La Vanguardia on Friday 11 November 2022. Read ICOM's Statement: Museums and Climate Activism.
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14 November 2022
Kurt Schwitters Merzbau
The Board of CIMAM (2020-22) is responding to the current sensitive situation regarding the future of the Merz Barn and in the context of its potential sale by auction.
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13 November 2022
CIMAM's new Board 2023-25
CIMAM members voted onsite and online on the candidates for the new Board for 2023-25. At the end of the CIMAM General Assembly on Sunday 13 November, the names of the elected 15 professionals who will guide CIMAM's projects for the next three years.
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3 November 2022
A set of Governance Clauses for Museum Ethics to protect and support museums and their staff
These clauses are intended to address the growing vulnerabilities museums face in relation to interference, increasingly political, from their ‘Founders’ or ‘Governing Bodies’ which can undermine the Museum’s mission and values and their ability to operate with the curatorial independence required to create an open space in civil society.
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3 November 2022
COP 27 Q&A: Global Impacts & Expected Climate Outcomes
Ahead of the next United Nations Climate Conference, known as COP 27, the UN Foundation’s Vice President for Climate and the Environment, Pete Ogden, shares his take on the key issues to watch and what’s needed to keep the Paris Agreement goals within reach. By Martha Hodgkins, October 31, 2022
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2 November 2022
How Museums Became Staging Grounds for Protest Movements
Two activists flung tomato soup over a Van Gogh painting at London’s National Gallery last week, the latest in a spate of disruptive protests seeking to end reliance on fossil fuels in the U.K. The brazen tactics are getting attention, but are they actually moving the needle toward environmental protection? By Ryan Waddoups October 19, 2022.
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28 October 2022
We are pleased to welcome the MUSEION Foundation to CIMAM
CIMAM is delighted to welcome the MUSEION Foundation, Bolzano, Italy, as a new Institutional Member. Over half a thousand contemporary art museum directors, curators, and professionals working within the contemporary art museum sector are members of this international community.