CIMAM News
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3 April 2025
Shaping the New Museums’ Future?
Join the upcoming webinar Shaping the New Museums’ Future? Training New Generations of Museum Curators along Sustainable Paths. How can museums remain more consistent in their narrative and practice? On whom does the more sustainable future of art museums depend? Thursday, April, 10th.
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1 April 2025
Postponing Censorship? Contentious Positions that Undermine the Museum as a Space for Artistic Freedom
April 1, 2025. On 19 December 2024, the Galerie Nasional Indonesia (Galnus) cancelled the opening of the solo exhibition of Yos Suprapto titled, Revival: Land for Food Sovereignty, initially curated by Suwarno Wisetrotomo, on the same day the exhibition was publicly announced to be opened.
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26 March 2025
CIMAM Opens Nominations for the 2025 Outstanding Museum Practice Award
CIMAM announces the Call for Nominations for the Fifth edition of the Outstanding Museum Practice Award (OMPA) 2025, an international recognition of the incredible work being done in modern and contemporary art museums worldwide. Deadline for submissions: June 27, 2025
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20 March 2025
PIT: Performance Practices in Museums and Art Centres - A Global Survey
The European project “Perform Inform Transform: Performance Practices in Museums and Art Centres” (PIT) will explore innovative forms of live activation between bodies, art museums, and art centers through new performances, professional and research activities, screenings, and debates. Deadline to participate is April 30.
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17 March 2025
Women in Art: Power, Trajectory, and Transformation
Join this new session of the CIMAM Connects meetings, led by Maya Juracan, on Thursday, March 27 at 9 a.m. Guatemala (CST), to discuss the fundamental role of women curators and museum directors in redefining the artistic and cultural field.
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4 March 2025
The Ecologically Minded Museum
Join us on Thursday, March, 13th, for the first Rapid Response Webinar of 2025! The Ecologically Minded Museum: Renegotiating Museum Structures and Sustainable Practices. Is the concept of a “sustainable museum” possible in practice?
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27 February 2025
Insights from the 2024 Travel Grant Recipients on CIMAM's 2024 Annual Conference
We invite the CIMAM community to explore the conference reports from this year’s travel grant recipients. These reports provide unique insights into their experiences at the conference and their interpretations of sustainability in the museum sector.
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26 February 2025
Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture Announces Opening
Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, a leading contemporary art institution in Central Asia, will open in a new permanent venue in April 2025. A multidisciplinary opening program of exhibitions, performances, and discussion, titled Barsakelmes, will take place from 25 April until 8 June 2025, and CIMAM members are invited to join the opening days.
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24 February 2025
Apsara DiQuinzio Highlights CIMAM’s Key Role in Advancing Sustainability
At the 2024 CIMAM Annual Conference in Los Angeles, Apsara DiQuinzio, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nevada Museum of Art, emphasized the value of CIMAM’s role in advancing sustainability. Plus, February updates of the Toolkit for Sustainable Museum Practices.
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19 February 2025
CIMAM Connects 2025: Join the Conversation!
Join the first CIMAM Connects of 2025! Recap of the Travel Grantees at the 56th Annual Conference in Los Angeles and What's Next. Friday 28, February, 7am (BST), 11am (CET), 12am (GMT+2), 7pm (JST).
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17 February 2025
Colección FEMSA joins CIMAM as a Supporter
Colección FEMSA (Nuevo León, Mexico) joined CIMAM as a Supporter in September 2024. Its mission is to contextualize art within the challenges that face our planet while generating community through significant, transformative projects that motivate citizen participation.
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12 February 2025
Who Are CIMAM Members?
Connect and Collaborate with the Leading Voices in Modern and Contemporary Art Museums. CIMAM’s strength lies in its diverse and dynamic community of over 900 professionals from 85+ countries, uniting museum directors, chief curators, researchers, and independent curators.
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10 February 2025
Who's Who at CIMAM with Azad Asifovich
Who's Who at CIMAM interview with Azad Asifovich, CIMAM member since 2021 and Independent Curator in Paris.
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6 February 2025
How was CIMAM 2024 in Los Angeles?
From December 6 to 8, 2024, Los Angeles became the epicenter of dialogue and collaboration as CIMAM's 56th Annual Conference brought together over 270 international delegates, including 34 travel grant grants, under the theme "Sustainable Futures: How? Where? For Whom? Read now the Conference Report
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5 February 2025
Keep the Conversation Going With CIMAM Connects
CIMAM Connect is peer-led platform where members can propose topics, exchange ideas, and engage in an informal and open dialogue on the pressing issues shaping the international museum and contemporary art landscape. Propose a topic by February 20th.
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4 February 2025
Sharjah Biennial offers CIMAM Members Free Access to the Opening Program
The Sharjah Biennial celebrates its 16th edition from February 16 to June 15, 2025. This year, the Biennial is joining CIMAM’s Free Admission Program, offering CIMAM members free access to the opening program from February 6 to 9.
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3 February 2025
Survey: The Future of Touring Exhibitions
As part of Culture Connect's Cultural Dialogue Surveys series exploring the appetite for cross-cultural dialogues, Touring Exhibitions Organisation (Teo) and Culture Connect invite the global touring exhibition community to answer our "Cultural Dialogue Survey 2025: The Future of Touring Exhibitions".
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29 January 2025
The Censorship Horizon
PEN America launched the report "The Censorship Horizon," along with the Association of Art Museum Directos and Artists at Risk Connection (ARC), highlighting the increasing threats of censorship faced by art museums in the U.S. and globally.
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27 January 2025
The Power of Community
Join CIMAM Today! – The Only Global Network for Modern and Contemporary Art Museum Professionals Suhanya Raffel, President of CIMAM and Museum Director of M+ Hong Kong, invites you to become part of a global community shaping the future of modern and contemporary art museums.
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20 January 2025
Save the Date! CIMAM 57th Annual Conference, Turin, November 28-30, 2025
Save the Date! CIMAM will hold its 57th Annual Conference in Turin from November 28-30, 2025. This marks CIMAM’s return to Italy after almost 50 years, with its last Italian edition held in Bologna and Prato in 1976.
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17 January 2025
Guidance Document: Integrating Art into Public Spaces
Zinnov has taken a pioneering initiative to formulate a guidance document for art in public spaces that would come in useful for organizations that wish to undertake projects in public spaces
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10 January 2025
CIMAM with Los Angeles
CIMAM extends its heartfelt support to the people and arts institutions of Los Angeles and shares information about emergency relief funds for artists and arts workers of all disciplines affected by the devastating fires in Los Angeles.
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22 December 2024
Thank You to Our CIMAM Patrons!
As we look ahead to 2025, we are deeply grateful to our Patrons for their unwavering support year after year.
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9 December 2024
CIMAM 57th Annual Conference Announced for Turin, Italy
At the CIMAM General Assembly, held on December 8 in Los Angeles, Suhanya Raffel, President of CIMAM and Director of the M+ in Hong Kong, together with Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, President of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, announced Turin (Italy) as the new city to host CIMAM's 57th Annual Conference.