CIMAM News
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3 January 2022
"It is necessary to bring to the consciousness of state institutions that art is one way of articulating and processing problems"
CIMAM 2021 grantee Lilit Hovhannisyan, Art historian, Curator, Nikolay Nikoghosyan, Cultural Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia.
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31 December 2021
We are pleased to welcome Thomas Eller to CIMAM!
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30 December 2021
"Our duty as artist, curators, and museum professionals is to advocate for more inclusive spaces"
CIMAM 2021 grantee Janine Gaëlle Dieudji, Exhibitions Director, Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden, Marrakech, Morocco.
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29 December 2021
"How can museums respond to the concept of Collapsology"
Jaroslaw Lubiak, Dr. Art College, Szczecin, Poland, spoke during the first day of the CIMAM Conference, within the thematic framework of Conflicts, Crisis and the Politics of Growth.
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28 December 2021
"Our communities need to create a new set of patterns for an effective and sustainable cohabitation"
CIMAM 2021 grantee Nicole Rafiki, Artist, and Curator, Oslo, Norway
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27 December 2021
"We need the idea of one Planet, but one Planet should not mean worldism. Humans are different"
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA, spoke during the first day of the CIMAM Conference, within the thematic framework of Conflicts, Crisis and the Politics of Growth.
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24 December 2021
"I intend to manage my institution in such a way that the production of exhibitions is sustainable"
CIMAM 2021 grantee Malgorzata Kaczmarska, Art Director, Chief Curator, Associate Professor, Ph.D. in Fine Arts, IMO Gallery of Contemporary Art in Stary Sacz, Kraków, Poland.
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23 December 2021
CIMAM wishes you a Happy Holiday Season!
We would like to express our appreciation to all our members, who are suffering the consequences of the crisis marked by the pandemic, and would like to remember the importance of respecting and supporting each other in bearing the load of promoting culture and art in our own unique way.
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22 December 2021
"This year's CIMAM conference gave me a more complex and deeper understanding of climate emergencies and growing climate migration"
CIMAM 2021 grantee Seda Shekoyan, Curator and Researcher, Aliq Media Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia.
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21 December 2021
CIMAM 2021 Highlights
2021 has been a year of opportunities for CIMAM. We are grateful to each and every one of our almost 700 members, both institutional and individual.
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20 December 2021
"A significant aspect of my practice as a choreographer and a cultural worker is how we can engage and rehearse proposals for future communities"
Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Artist and choreographer, Berlin/Warsaw, spoke during the first day of the CIMAM Conference, within the thematic framework of Conflicts, Crisis and the Politics of Growth.
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16 December 2021
Videos and Reports are now available!
CIMAM's 2021 Annual Conference. Watch the speaker's presentations at CIMAM TV and read the experiences and critical articles from our 50 grantees!
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15 December 2021
A warm welcome to Dominik Kurylek 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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15 December 2021
"Can art, museums, and our work as curators offer hope and life-affirming visions for the future?"
Joanna Sokolowska, Independent Curator, Poland, talking on day 1 of the CIMAM 2021 Annual Conference, within the theme frame: "Conflict, crisis, and the politics of growth."
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14 December 2021
"How can we support each other in dire times across the national borders"
Read the conference report by CIMAM 2021 grantee Inga Lace, C-MAP Central and Eastern Europe Fellow, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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13 December 2021
"Can mutual listening, direct dialogue on a small scale, be able to break the spiral of pain and anger that can only lead to increased polarization?"
Hilke Wagner, Direktor Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany, talking on day 2 of the CIMAM 2021 Annual Conference, within the theme frame Museums as spaces for recognizing diferences.
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9 December 2021
The Next Stage In The Digital Transformation Of Museums
While the internet and our physical world are migrating to the Metaverse, museums are stuck in the web of twenty years ago. Read this article written by Gil Press, and originally published by Forbes, 6 December 2021.
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9 December 2021
Main reasons why CIMAM members attend the Annual Conference every year
This year's edition was exceptional, and one expression was constantly repeated: "to meet again in person". This, and much more, is what it means to belong to this international community of museum professionals. Read some of the evaluations that the event attendees have made about the 53rd edition of the CIMAM Annual Conference.
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7 December 2021
‘Too Often, BIPOC Candidates Are Asked to Come with Capes on for Rescue Missions’: Museum Directors Reflect on an Evolving Profession
Read this interview regarding the panel discussion devoted to the subject at Art Basel Miami Beach on Wednesday—under the title “Re-inventing the Institution? New Museum Leaders”—drew a crowd while offering some hints as to what the future might hold. Written by Sarah Douglas, and originally published by artnews.
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3 December 2021
Welcome to our newest member Agnieszka Sosnowska!
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2 December 2021
Seven ways museums are responding to the climate crisis
We talk to museum innovators around the world who are taking climate action, from the art on the walls to the food on the restaurant menu. Read this article originally published by The Art Newspaper, 4 November 2021.
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30 November 2021
"Neo-extractivism is a privileged window to read the multiple crises that contemporary societies are going through"
Maristella Svampa, Sociologist and writer, Bariloche, Argentina, spoke during the third day of the CIMAM conference, in the framework of the thematic on New Perspectives on Climate and Commonality.
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30 November 2021
Nothing is There
This text was written by Anna Karpenko, Independent Curator, GFZK (Leipzig) and CIMAM 2021 grantee. Originally published for the online magazine project dwutygodnik.
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29 November 2021
"A future beyond the Anthropocene"
Binna Choi, Director, Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Utrecht, Netherlands, talking on day 3 of the CIMAM 2021 Annual Conference, within the theme frame New Perspectives on Climate and Commonality.