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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".

How does one archive an ephemeral art form such as performance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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.