Practice

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.

On Tuesday, September 22, 2020, the eleven national service heritage organizations, including the CKV, came together in Leuven to receive the Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Jan Jambon. Because who are we? What are we doing? And what binds us? The minister received an answer to these questions.

It was in relation to the launch of online platform of the Marcel Mariën Foundation that a conversation took place about the remains of the Mariën studio in the Jan Van Veen archive.

An artist’s life – how can it be conserved and kept alive? Rue Marcel Broodthaers shows the way with its structuring and organisation of the legacy and archives of Galerie Margaretha de Boevé and Galerie Pim De Rudder.

Tuesday June 9 we celebrate International Archives Day. June 9 is therefore the day to think about your archive. Especially for this occasion, the TRACKS partners organize online question-and-answer sessions with #askanarchivist!

Hans Theys is a twentieth-century philosopher and art historian. He has written and designed dozens of books on the works of contemporary artists and hundreds of essays, interviews and reviews in books, catalogues and magazines.

The archives of Paul Bervoets are representative of abstract modernism after 1945 and can therefore be used for more research, publications and exhibitions.

The Luc Fierens archive isn’t just an illustration of a fascinating artistic practice but also represents an extraordinary networking of that practice, oeuvre and ideas.

Compiling, organising and storing – first-line conservation for the archives of artist Marc Verstockt.

CKV investigates the manifestation of the archive as a work of art and visited Belgian mail art artist Guy Bleus (1950) who developed his archive into his overarching artistic project.

The Jan Van Veen archive is an example where emergency shelter ensures that interesting archive materials are not irrevocably lost.

As part of the field analysis and the valuation framework for artists' archives, CKV organized a consultation with the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) in The Hague.

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!

Based on the archive of artist Otobong Nkanga, CKV is investigating together with the University of Antwerp what can be a good practice for preserving performances in the visual arts.

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.

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.

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.

Following Jef Lambrecht’s death in 2016, his family and friend began sorting and inventorying his literary and artistic archive. CKV is supervising the last, critical phase of the (re)purposing of a significant segment of this 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.

CKV paid a visit to the Johan Van Geluwe Foundation, a foundation that has represented the interests of the artist and his impressive archive for over ten years.