“To approach private art collections with a professional collection policy concerning collection management (acquisition / care / use), research and preservation, could benefit both the collector and the public authorities responsible for the cultu ral heritage.” Introduction by Prof. Dr. Frederik Swennen. Speakers: Antoine de Galbert (La Maison Rouge, Paris), Antonia M. Perelló (Macba, Barcelona), Neville Redvers-Mutton (Momart, London), Jonieke van Es (Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam).

2010 Saturday April 24, 3-5pm
Committed collecting

Since the expansion of the art world both in terms of scale and in terms of geography collecting today is a far more complex, challenging and demanding matter. What does it mean to collect today with the general proliferation of contemporary art and the huge rise in the number of galleries, art fairs and exhibitions, not to mention the production of art and the better communication of it in the art world itself. What is true, committed collecting today? Is there an ethics of collecting? How do committed collectors navigate the seamless, art-saturated landscape of today in order to make their choices? How does collecting today differ from say, collecting 30 or 40 years ago? Moderator: Katerina Gregos (Curator). Speakers : Ziba Ardalan de Weck (Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London), Peter Doroshenko (Curator), Kendell Geers (Artist), Mark Vanmoerkerke (Vanmoerkerke Art Collection, Ostend).

2010 Sunday April 25, 3-5pm
Still Life as a dictionary: from the classical tradition to contemporary research.

New forms of art, new forms of collecting, and new media languages, changed the traditional form of art, which is still life. What are the main vectors of continuity between the classical still life and its modern form? What are the prospects of this new kind of picture, build with keywords, like an hypermedia object, who presents a panorama of the everyday, a semiological essay of contemporary life? Speakers : Tijana Zakula (art historian, Utrecht University), Manou Farine, (art critic, l'Oeil, Paris) Dimitri Ozerkov (Head of Contemporary Art, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg), Elena Sorokina (independent curator), Olga Kisseleva (artist). Other speakers to be confirmed.

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