CIMAM News
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28 November 2025
CIMAM Announces the Three Awardees of the 2025 Outstanding Museum Practice Award (OMPA)
Recipients of the OMPA 2025 have been the Museo Barda del Desierto (mBDD) (Northern Patagonia, Argentina), the Bergen Kjøtt Foundation (Bergen, Norway), and The Palestinian Museum (Birzeit, Palestine) for their clearly intentioned and impactful practices that reinforce the core values and purposes of museums.
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20 November 2025
CIMAM releases a new Best Practices Initiative
Thursday, 20 November 2025. CIMAM launches a landmark position paper that aims to redefine how museums and living artists collaborate, introducing the ‘Memorandum of Care and Understanding (MoCU).
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19 November 2025
Getty’s PST ART Releases Largest-Ever Dataset on Climate Impact of Exhibition-Making
Getty announces a new report on its inaugural PST ART Climate Impact Program, with baseline measurements about carbon emissions, material waste, and more from 40 exhibitions tied to the latest edition of the nation’s largest art event, PST ART.
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17 November 2025
CIMAM at the Inaugural Culture for the Planet Summit
CIMAM is pleased to share the outcomes of the Inaugural Culture for the Planet Summit, held from 8 to 10 October 2025 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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6 November 2025
CIMAM welcomes Fondation Opale as Major Patron
Since July 2025, Fondation Opale has supported CIMAM as a Major Patron. CIMAM spoke with Gautier Chiarini, Director of Fondation Opale, about the institution’s mission to enhance the visibility and recognition of Indigenous Australian art in Europe.
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3 November 2025
Shanghai Biennale
Free admission for CIMAM Members is offered during the Preview Day of the 15th Shanghai Biennale – Does the Flower Hear the Bee?, taking place at the Power Station of Art, Shanghai. The exhibition will run from November 8, 2025, to March 31, 2026, with the Preview Day scheduled for November 7, from 15:30 to 20:00.
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30 October 2025
About the future of the Whitney Independent Study Program
30 October 2025. CIMAM joins the many voices already protesting the cancellation of the performance, the dismissal of associate director Sara Nadal-Melsió, and the suspension of the ISP curatorial program.
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30 October 2025
CIMAM’s 2025 General Assembly
The CIMAM 2025 General Assembly will take place on Sunday, 30 November 2025 at 09:00 am CET, in Turin. CIMAM Members can also join and follow the session online.
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29 October 2025
What's the relation between a collection and a museum?
CIMAM is launching a global advocacy campaign in support of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA), addressing the critical political decisions that threaten to remove its collection and downgrade the institution to a Kunsthalle
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28 October 2025
Sternberg Press joins CIMAM’s Editorial Partnership Program
CIMAM announces a new collaboration with Sternberg Press, publisher of influential titles in art and cultural criticism, to provide members with privileged access to groundbreaking thinking in contemporary art today.
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27 October 2025
Meet the Keynote Speakers of CIMAM 2025
Victoria Noorthoorn, Director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (Argentina), CIMAM Board Member, and member of the Content Committee for the CIMAM 2025 Annual Conference, introduces the three keynote speakers who will open each day of this year’s conference with thought-provoking perspectives.
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24 October 2025
Khanenko Museum Named 2025 “Project of Influence” at The Best in Heritage
The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Art (Kyiv, Ukraine), recipient of the CIMAM Outstanding Museum Practice Award 2024, has been selected as one of the two “Projects of Influence” at The Best in Heritage 2025
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20 October 2025
CIMAM’s Free Admission Program at the Singapore Biennale 2025
CIMAM Members are invited to the preview days of the Singapore Biennale as part of our Free Admission Program, including a 10% discount at SIP at SAM (museum cafè) during the exhibition period.
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13 October 2025
There Was Good News
October, 11, 2025. Opinion piece by Bart De Baere, Director of M HKA, following the recent decision by the Flemish Government to cancel the museum’s new building and to revoke M HKA’s museum status.
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9 October 2025
M HKA caught in the crosshairs, what is the museum’s future?
9 October 2025. Statement in Support of M HKA. The CIMAM Museum Watch is profoundly concerned by the recent news that M HKA, an internationally respected contemporary art museum, is being regressed into a kunsthalle, and equally that it is being separated from its site-specific collection.
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6 October 2025
Defending Artistic Freedom at a Time of Growing Censorship
Tuesday, October 14, 2025. Join the upcoming webinar co-organized by CIMAM and AICA International, with the generous participation of Freemuse and the Artistic Freedom Initiative (AFI), that seeks to map and better understand censorship today, while sharing practical resources and solutions for this critical challenge.
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2 October 2025
CIMAM OMPA 2024 Awardees Featured at The Best in Heritage 2025
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro and Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Art - awardees of the OMPA 2024 - will present their projects at The Best in Heritage 2025 in Barcelona, taking place 22–24 October.
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1 October 2025
UNESCO Launches First Global Report on Cultural Policies
On 29 September 2025, UNESCO launched “Culture: The Missing SDG”, its first edition of the Global Report on Cultural Policies, during the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development – MONDIACULT 2025, held in Barcelona, Spain.
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29 September 2025
CIMAM Joins the Global Call “We Make Tomorrow”
We Make Tomorrow is a Global Call on policymakers to place culture at the heart of climate action, and to fully integrate culture into the UNFCCC second Global Stocktake.
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23 September 2025
CIMAM Board Elections 2026–28: A Message from our President
Suhanya Raffel, President of CIMAM for the period 2023-25, highlights the crucial role of the Board in shaping the future of our global community and encourages every CIMAM individual and institutional member to take part in this important process.
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22 September 2025
Africa Takes the Stage: Zimbabwe’s Moment as Host of the CIMAM Annual Conference
Interview with Raphael Chikukwa, conducted by journalist Stephan Rheeder for Art Africa magazine, published on 18 September.
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18 September 2025
CIMAM 2025 Travel Grant Beneficiaries
CIMAM announces the names of the 39 modern and contemporary art museum directors, curators, researchers, and art professionals, from 20 different countries, who have been awarded a travel grant to attend the 57th CIMAM Annual Conference “Enduring Game: Expanding New Models of Museum Making”, taking place in Turin from November 28 to 30, 2025
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15 September 2025
CIMAM Welcomes DAS MINSK Kunsthaus Potsdam as a Patron
CIMAM is pleased to welcome DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam as a Patron. On this occasion, we spoke with its director, Anna Schneider, to learn more about the institution’s vision and mission.
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9 September 2025
CIMAM Board Elections 2026–28: Vote is Open
Voting opens: 09 September, 10:00 am CEST and closes 30 September, 10:00 am CEST. Voting will take place exclusively online through Neovote’s platform.