Practice

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.