CIMAM News
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17 August 2020
"I would like to continue striving to help art museums rethink what they can offer and consequently have society recognize the meaning of their existence"
Interview with Mami Kataoka, Director of the Mori Art Museum, and President of CIMAM, for Japan Forward.
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13 August 2020
Interdependence, or, Secrecy as the Last Universal Right
Zdenka Badovinac is a curator and writer, and also a CIMAM Honorary Member. "Interdependence, or, Secrecy as the Last Universal Right" was originally published in e-flux journal #110 (June 2020).
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12 August 2020
Call for Curator 2020. Support for Creation. "la Caixa" Foundation
Closes: 23 September 2020. The call for projects to produce artwork forms part of the ”la Caixa” Foundation’s programme to support emerging curators.
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11 August 2020
Fund the Arts in Beirut
CIMAM would like to extend its support to the Lebanese art community in these very sad times. We are sharing this message from Walid Raad, Board President, and Mai Abu ElDahab, Director of Mophradat with the hope for contribution.
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10 August 2020
What Is a Museum? A Dispute Erupts Over a New Definition
An international effort to update the definition of what museums are has been met with resignations and political intrigue.
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6 August 2020
Mami Kataoka – interview: ‘We need to look at long-term museum management because this situation will linger’
The director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo explains how it has used its online presence and social media during the Covid-19 pandemic, and considers how this will shape the future of exhibitions and the funding of museums.
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6 August 2020
Call for Curators based in Central and Eastern Europe for a short residency in London
Closes: 1 September 2020. Delfina Foundation in partnership with Kunsthalle Praha is delighted to announce an open call for a curator based in Central and Eastern Europe.
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30 July 2020
MMCA Roundtable: Museums in the Time of Pandemic
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The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea held a webinar 'Roundtable: Museums in the Time of Pandemic' on June 22nd. If you missed it, watch it here.
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29 July 2020
This Year Will End Eventually. Document It While You Can.
Museums are working overtime to collect artifacts and ephemera from the pandemic and the racial justice movement, and they need your help.
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27 July 2020
Museum Audiences and Sustainability Today
Join CIMAM's #3 webinar with Gridthiya Gaweewong, Rhana Devenport and Zoe Butt, moderated by Suhanya Raffel on Thursday 30 July 2020.
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27 July 2020
How Museum Workers Are Rallying to Launch Mutual-Aid Funds in Support of Colleagues Who Have Lost Their Jobs
The need for grassroots mutual-aid funds illustrates deep structural problems in the arts field.
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27 July 2020
"The webinars have created a sense of togetherness during these challenging, isolated times.”
Claudio Cravero, Head of Fine Arts Museum, Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre, Kuwait, and CIMAM 2019 Travel Grantee.
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23 July 2020
The Major Biennales Going Ahead in 2020
Despite numerous cancellations and postponements, several significant biennales in Asia and Europe will take place this year.
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23 July 2020
Staying real for the sake of art: Museums and festivals proceed with caution
Although the COVID-19 pandemic spurred the closure of cultural institutions for months in Japan, Fumio Nanjo, art historian, the special advisory director of Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art (Hirosaki MOCA), and member of CIMAM, believes that, despite the global crisis at hand, artistic expression is as important as ever.
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23 July 2020
“Interdisciplinary collaboration is something completely new for La Biennale"
The Venice Biennale: The historically-focused show will look at how the biennale has responded to dramatic moments in the last century.
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21 July 2020
“Museums need to press the reset button and become more radical"
Directors and curators should consider this challenging moment as an opportunity diversify the stories they tell and the staff that tell them.
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20 July 2020
Thank you for submitting your proposals for the new ICOM Museum Definition!
Thank you for participating in rethinking a new museum definition for ICOM.
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15 July 2020
Call for Curatorial Research Grant- Africa Projects
Closes: 22 August 2020. Rencontres d’Arles and Institut Français are launching a curatorial research grant open to citizens of an African country who are based in Africa most of the time.
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14 July 2020
"Museums are creators of symbolic capital"
Agustín Pérez Rubio, CIMAM Board Member and Curator, 11th Berlin Biennale, Berlín and panelist at CIMAM Rapid Response Webinar #2: Reaching Across Distancing
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13 July 2020
Mami Kataoka, President of CIMAM, Talks About the Potential Long Term Impact of Covid-19
"Together with our very experienced and engaged Board members, we are very much looking forward to further developing CIMAM’s network and leadership role in promoting good practices in the modern and contemporary art museum profession".
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9 July 2020
CIMAM Advocates for Museums for Modern and Contemporary Art at a time of World Crisis
At a time of social, economic and ecological crisis around the world that has been further intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic, the role of museums has never been more important. We congratulate UNESCO on their report on Museums Around the World in the Face of Covid-19, that outlines the social as well as the economic impact of some 85,000 museum closures.
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9 July 2020
“Make art a form of universal literacy”. A letter from Luis Camnitzer
Luis Camnitzer, Uruguayan artist and writer, was one of the CIMAM panelists in the Rapid Response Webinar, entitled Reaching Across Distancing, that took place on 25 June. His part of the talk began with the following letter.
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6 July 2020
Take part in creating the new museum definition of ICOM
Submit a proposal, whereas a keyword or sentence, by Friday 17 July.
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6 July 2020
With museums having been off limits, could AR works find a new home—in the home?
Augmented reality art has had a potentially huge captive audience during the coronavirus lockdown. We look at the pros and cons of the technology in a domestic setting.