CIMAM News
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26 August 2022
Art is Good for You: Perspectives on Museums and Well-being
Thursday 15 September 2022, 14:00 hrs CEST. Join artists, curators and educators from Asia, the Pacific, Central and South America talking about how notions of well-being are informing their practices and how they are shaping the museum and its many publics.
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25 August 2022
Grants for Norwegian Independent Curators
Apply until 31 August. OCA Norway generously funds this support to Norwegian Independent Curators.
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25 August 2022
ICOM approves a new museum definition
On August 24th, in the framework of the 26th ICOM General Conference held in Prague, the ICOM Extraordinary General Assembly approved a new museum definition. The vote is the culmination of an 18-month participatory process that involved hundreds of museum professionals from 126 National Committees from all over the world.
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24 August 2022
Thank you for attending CIMAM presentations in ICOM Prague 2022
CIMAM was present during ICOM's General Conference in Prague representing the collective interests and challenges of museums and collections of modern and contemporary around the world.
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4 August 2022
"For me, curating is about telling stories, and how they are told is equally important"
Interview with CIMAM member Riason Naidoo on curating contemporary African and diáspora art.
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29 July 2022
CIMAM Outstanding Museum Practice Award
The CIMAM Outstanding Museum Practice Award recognises exemplary practices in museums around the world. Submit your nomination!
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27 July 2022
"The institution's role has been intellectually driven by the integrity of curatorial voices to present inclusive and diverse platforms"
Suhanya Raffel, CIMAM board member and director of M+ in Hong Kong, explains CIMAM's mission to address and provide spaces for reflection on issues of concern to modern and contemporary art museums, such as climate change, controversy management, inclusion, diversity, and gender equality, among others.
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18 July 2022
Three historical facts that will mark the debates of #TheAttentiveMuseum
Agustin Perez Rubio, Chair of this year's CIMAM Annual Conference Contents Committee, explains the three historical facts that will mark the debates of TheAttentiveMuseum
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14 July 2022
Bringing Context Back to the Debate: Museums in the Global South and the Challenges of an All-encompassing Agenda
This Rapid Response webinar seeks to foster a contextualized discussion on the role of so-called peripheral museums in this scenario. What are the contributions of South Asian, African, or Latin American collections for the debates on decolonization/restitution?
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12 July 2022
A warm welcome to Ika Sienkiewicz-Nowacka to CIMAM!
Join CIMAM and have access to a directory of members, who are directors and curators working in modern and contemporary art museums, collections, and archives.
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12 July 2022
Registration is Now Open! Join the CIMAM 2022 Annual Conference
Join us for these exciting three-day discussions to explore how museums can embrace, partner, and actively listen around the theme of "The Attentive Museum," an opportunity to take an expansive view of the work that can and should be done to ensure museums of relevance and impact.
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6 July 2022
We are pleased to welcome Clara Kim to CIMAM!
Join CIMAM, the most renowned international network of modern and contemporary art museum experts in the field.
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1 July 2022
Join CIMAM's 60th anniversary webinar!
6 July 2022. As CIMAM is approaching the festive commemoration of its birthday during the coming Annual Conference with many members present, this webinar has been organized with museum directors and curators of modern and contemporary art from Asia, Latin America and Europe to discuss past, present and future of CIMAM with Board members and the audience.
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1 July 2022
We are all responsible for the climate emergency.
As active professionals in the contemporary art museum and curatorial field, we call you to take part in this survey to help CIMAM identify how best we could support the sector at a time of ecological crisis.
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27 June 2022
Suffering From Anxiety? Try Visiting a Museum
Written by Elaine Velie. Originally published by Hyperallergic, June 20, 2022.
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27 June 2022
About being a CIMAM Board member, by Eugene Tan
Stand for election to the CIMAM Board! CIMAM welcomes nominations from its voting members to join the active Board of CIMAM (2023–25). Deadline 31 July 2022.
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22 June 2022
CIMAM is proud to welcome Gus Casely-Hayford among our members
Join CIMAM, the most renowned international network of modern and contemporary art museum experts in the field.
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22 June 2022
Net-zero Picasso: Museums rethink art shows to cut climate impact
Written By Joanna Gill. Originally published by Business World 22 June 2022.
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20 June 2022
Interview with Hideaki Fukutake, Vice Chairman of the Fukutake Foundation
CIMAM wishes to recognize the support of the Fukutake Foundation, a Founding Patron of CIMAM since 2000, with a conversation on its commitment to the art world.
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20 June 2022
Listen Bart Baere and Goranka Horjan at The Week in Art
Ben Luke interviewed Bart Baere, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) and Chair of CIMAM's Museum Watch Committee, and Goranka Horjan, President of INTERCOM about the recently published report Museum Watch Governance Management Project.
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20 June 2022
Augustin Perez Rubio talks about the Travel Grant Program
A new episode of CFW News to present the Travel Grant program offered by CIMAM Check our interview with Augustin Perez Rubio to learn more about the grant and do not forget to apply !
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20 June 2022
Going Neutral? Institutions and Climate Change
Watch the panel discussion at Art Basel with Miranda Massie, Mami Kataoka, and Suhanya Raffel, moderated by András Szántó (16 June 2022).
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16 June 2022
Call for Curators from Latin America to take part in the CIMAM 2022 Travel Grant Program
The aim of the CIMAM Travel Grant Program is to support the curatorial and research development of applicants through their attendance at the Annual Conference where the most current concerns on contemporary art practices are being discussed.
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16 June 2022
Three Views of Digital Transformation
30 June 2022. In recent years, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic, museums and memory institutions made a significant switch to accelerate their use of digital content and new technologies.