Practice

How do you archive an ephemeral art form such as performance? CKV has a look at the possibilities.

A report of the symposium 'Archiving Performance: Between Artistic Poetics and Institutional Policy' that took place on May 16, 2022.

The CKV gives advice with regard to the mapping of the lecagcy of Raphaël Buedts, focussing on the archive.

How do we decide today what is important for the future? A challenging question. Follow the webinar series "To imagine otherwise: future archives". On April 28 with Andrew Flinn.

Here you can get to know more on the archive of Marc Holthof

Read more about the valuable archive that is carefully managed by the Drieghe family.

In the autumn of 2021, Flor Bex and Lieve De Deyne agreed with the CKV to donate Flor Bex's archive to the M HKA.

Read more about the care for the archive of Ricardo Brey here, and also how documenting oeuvre requires special attention.

The symposium 'Archiving performance: between artistic poetics and institutional policies' takes place on 16th of May. Organized by CKV and the Research Centre for Visual Poetics (University of Antwerp).

How do we decide today what is important to preserve for the future? A challenging question. Follow the webinar series "To imagine otherwise: future archives".

In 2020-2021 the archive of Ruimte Morguen was transferred to the M HKA. CKV is working together with founder Marc Schepers to make this gallery archive accessible.

Read more about our plans to use oral history in the service of archival care.

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

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

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.