CIMAM News
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26 July 2021
International Call for Grant Applications to attend the CIMAM 2021 Annual Conference
CIMAM offers around 40 grants to support the attendance of contemporary art curators and museum directors to CIMAM’s 2021 Annual Conference generously supported by Getty Foundation, V-A-C Foundation, Byucksan Foundation, Mercedes Vilardell and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
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23 July 2021
Statement on recent developments at MACBA
CIMAM’s Museum Watch Committee is deeply concerned by recent developments at MACBA, Barcelona, one of Europe’s more influential and dynamic museums.
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22 July 2021
Suzanne Cotter appointed new Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA)
CIMAM celebrates the appointment of our Secretary-Treasurer and Board Member, Suzanne Cotter, as Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA). Congratulations!
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21 July 2021
CIMAM's Environmental Sustainability in Museum Practice Toolkit
CIMAM's Toolkit on Environmental Sustainability in Museum Practice introduces three successful examples of Sustainability Action Plans by Museums developed by the Tate Modern, the M+, and the Australian Museum. museumHave a look and get inspired by the CIMAM community!
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19 July 2021
Turning the Gwangju Biennale into a Working Organisation: Statement on the Gwangju Biennale
19 July 2021. The Museum Watch Committee (MWC) expresses its great concern regarding the resistance to the organisational reform of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation, the organiser of the Gwangju Biennale.
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18 July 2021
Around 40 grants to attend the CIMAM 2021 Annual Conference
CIMAM offers around 40 grants to support the attendance – physical or virtual – of contemporary art curators and museum directors to CIMAM’s 2021 Annual Conference.
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16 July 2021
Elvira Dyangani Ose, New Director of MACBA
CIMAM is pleased to announce the new appointment of Elvira Dyangani Ose as the new Director of MACBA. The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art - MACBA is an Institutional Member of CIMAM.
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16 July 2021
Paper craft: Getty Foundation grants $1.55m to undersung prints and drawings projects
Paper craft: Getty Foundation grants $1.55m to undersung prints and drawings projects. Written by Gabriella Angeleti, and published originally by The Art Newspaper, July 14, 2021.
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15 July 2021
CIMAM opens registration and launches the Travel Grant Program for 2021 Annual Conference
This year's CIMAM Annual Conference is titled Under Pressure. Museums in Times of Xenophobia and Climate Emergency, and will be held in Lodz and Gdansk, Poland, November 5-7, 2021.
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14 July 2021
CIMAM Toolkit Environmental Sustainability
CIMAM's Environmental Sustainability in Museum Practice Toolkit shares over 35 examples of immediate actions currently being implemented in museums and curatorial projects related to exhibitions and programs, museum staffing, operations, and building efficiency. Get inspired by them and start on the path to more sustainable practices in your museum.
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13 July 2021
How social justice and a pandemic are shaping Museum leadership
ArtsHub takes a look at the AMaGA discussion on leadership and transformative change for the future of museums and galleries, with a panel of experts offering pathways forward – starting with recruitment.
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11 July 2021
Covid: Can the arts lead the green recovery from the pandemic?
As the arts and culture sector attempts to recover from the devastating impact of the pandemic, some creatives are making eye-catching attempts to prevent another crisis - this one environmental. Written by James FitzGerald, and published originally by BBC Minute.
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8 July 2021
Welcome to CIMAM, Yokohama Museum of Art!
CIMAM is pleased to welcome the Yokohama Museum of Art 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.
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6 July 2021
Toolkit on Environmental Sustainability in the Museum Practice
This CIMAM toolkit aims to help contemporary art museum professionals to start implementing in their institutions and as individuals, the necessary changes to become carbon neutral.
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6 July 2021
Welcome to the Museum of the Future
I asked a group of students in my “Critical Issues in Art Conservation” course to tell me what their own museums of the future might look and feel like. Written by Sanchita Balachandran, and published originally by Hyperallergic, June 1, 2021.
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6 July 2021
"We can be so much more powerful if we act together, whatever our scale, or focus, or location. There simply is no time to lose"
We spoke with Frances Morris, director of Tate Modern, CIMAM Board Member, and Chair of the CIMAM Sustainability and Ecology in Museum Practice working group which has led this project, to share her vision on the current situation of museums in terms of sustainability.
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6 July 2021
Contribute to the history of CIMAM
Contribute to the history of CIMAM by sending us your good memories and photos. CIMAM is building its visual history and encourages all its members and followers who have participated in any of the last 52 Annual Conferences to share old photographs and documents that serve as testimony to tell our story.
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5 July 2021
What does ‘international’ mean post pandemic for exhibition programming
As Nina Miall takes up the role of Curator of International Art at QAGOMA, we talk to her about rethinking how we program, how our choices are more sustainable, and what ‘international’ means post pandemic.
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30 June 2021
We are pleased to welcome Janine Gaëlle Dieudji to CIMAM
Join CIMAM and get involved in a unique networking and inspiring process, which will culminate in a meeting in Poland at the end of the year during our Annual Conference, a unique occasion to strengthen your contacts with key opinion leaders in our sector.
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25 June 2021
"The key to our thinking was to consider content, form, and methodology, with an initial focus on reduction and reuse, rather than recycle"
Rachel Kent, Head of International Touring Exhibitions, Tate Modern, London, and panelist at CIMAM's online session Sustainability and Environmental Change in Museum Practice.
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25 June 2021
Experts say our galleries and museums need to become greener
From our boards down to visitor services, museums and galleries have a holistic responsibility to become more sustainable entities – in policy and programming.
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23 June 2021
Exhibitions explore idea of 'sustainable museum'
MOCA Busan, Daelim Museum, MMCA ask how art can be sustainable by reusing materials, reducing waste. Written by Park Han-sol, and published originally by The Korea Times, June 23, 2021.
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22 June 2021
A Racial Reckoning for Art Museums
Written by Abby Schultz and Mitch Moxley, and published originally by Penta magazine.
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14 June 2021
"The Museum Watch Committee is an observatory of what is happening, and we have a symbolic voice from CIMAM"
Bart de Baere, Director, M HKA — Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium , is a member of the Board of CIMAM and Chair of the Museum Watch Committee.