Flemish Centre for Art Archives

The Flemish Centre for Art Archives is a hub for the distributed care of art archives and legacies. The organisation works autonomously at M HKA and focusses on the conservation, sustainable public access and effective field development of visual art archives under public and private management. Find out more about CKV’s development, mission, and vision here.

Een vrijwilliger aan het werk bij Stichting Pim De Rudder, Assenede. (c)CKV, 2020

Learnings from the field

(volunteer)WORK in archival care

How to involve students and volunteers in your organisation to take care of the archives of an artist or an art organisation?

Learnings from the field

Transfer: the Jozef Van Ruyssevelt photo archive

With the cooperation of CKV, a part of the legacy of the artist found a permanent repository in the Bibliotheca Wasiana.

In practice

Willy Van Eeckhout: the archive as autobiography

The M HKA has been responsible for preserving the archive of the Mechelen artist Willy Van Eeckhout since December 2018. Browse through a selection of pages from his archive files here.

In practice

Jef Verheyen Archive

CKV started working with the Jef Verheyen Archive in 2019 to gear up for the opening of artist Jef Verheyen’s (1932-1984) oeuvre and archive to the public. This is a must for obtaining an impression of Verheyens’ flow of ideas.

In practice

WORKSHOP – art archive do’s and don’t’s

CKV was a guest at the Kunsthal Ghent. Together we talked about what an archive makes, about why archiving, about how to structure and organize, about acid-free packaging, about digitization and much more!

Affiche voor Post-Performance Project 3, Vleeshal Middelburg, Nederland, 1981.

In practice

Hugo Roelandt Archive

The CKV is opening the archive of Belgian artist, Hugo Roelandt (1950-2015) – one of Belgium’s preeminent pioneers of performance art in the 1970s and 80s.

In practice

Frans Van Roosmaelen Archive

Complete archives aren’t the only ones worth conserving and exhibiting. The CKV is handling a few fascinating remnants of the Frans Van Roosmaelen archive.

In practice

Luc Deleu Archive / T.O.P. Office

The CKV and the Flemish Architecture Institute (VAi) are looking into how to take care of the archive, knowledge and ideas of Luc Deleu / T.O.P Office sustainably.