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

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.

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.