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Title
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Rethinking Education in Contemporary Art Conservation
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Type
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presentations & discussion
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Date, time
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Wednesday 9th June, 15:00-17:00
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Organisation
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Sanneke Stigter, University of Amsterdam / Kröller-Müller Museum
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Description
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Changing roles in museums and shifting practices in contemporary art conservation ask for a different model and new topics in curricula. If the contemporary art conservator is considered a mediator between the materiality of the artwork, the artist and museum practice, it becomes clear how this implies that the conservator has a directing role. This should be understood and negotiated every time an artwork is presented. Acknowledging this makes clear the need for qualitative research in the profession of conservation, whereas the traditional training programs are still mostly dominated by quantitative research, i.e. natural sciences. What skills are actually needed for the new strategies in conservation? How could these be incorporated into training programs? What will be the expertise of the future contemporary art conservator?
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Click here to download session summary
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Biography
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Sanneke Stigter is Conservator of Contemporary Art and Sculpture at the Kröller-Müller Museum and Program Leader of the M.A. in Contemporary Art Conservation at the University of Amsterdam. She is INCCA Education coordinator for the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Foundation for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (SBMK). She received her M.A. in Art History at the University of Amsterdam and a Post Graduate at the Limburg Conservation Institute. She recently started her Ph.D. research within the research project New Strategies in Conservation of Contemporary Art.
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Part 1
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Presentations
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Speaker 1
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Glenn Wharton, Museum of Modern Art / New York University
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Glenn Wharton holds duel positions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and New York University. At MoMA he serves as Time-Based Media Conservator, where he cares for video, performance, and electronic collections. He is a Research Scholar at NYU where he teaches graduate courses on the conservation of contemporary art with a focus on media installations. In addition, he serves as Executive Director of INCCA-NA, the North American group of the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art. He received his M.A. in Conservation from the Cooperstown Graduate Programs in 1981 and his Ph.D. in Conservation from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in 2005. He is a Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation and the American Institute for Conservation.
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Speaker 2
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Ysbrand Hummelen, Netherlands Institue for Cultural Heritage / ICN
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Currently Senior Research Conservator at the Netherlands Institute of Cultural Heritage and Ysbrand Hummelen started at the former Central Laboratory for Research of Objects of Art and Science (CL) in 1991. He trained as a conservator/restorer at the Central Laboratory, the Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zürich and the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro, Rome. He has been responsible for the content of several national and international research programmes in the field of the preservation of contemporary art. He recently started his Ph.D. research within the research project New Strategies in Conservation of Contemporary Art.
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Part 2
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Discussion moderated by Barbara Sommermeyer
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Panelists
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Lydia Beerkens - SRAL / private practice
Anna Comiotto - Bern University of Applied Sciences
Gerda Kaltenbruner - Akademie der Bildende Kunste, Vienna
Glenn Wharton - MoMA / New York University
Gunnar Heydenreich - Fachhochschule Köln
Ysbrand Hummelen - ICN
Sanneke Stigter - University of Amsterdam / Kröller-Müller Museum
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Biography
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Barbara Sommermeyer is conservator of contemporary art at the Hamburger Kunsthalle since 2000. In 1998 she was awarded her MA in paintings and sculpture conservation in 1998 at the State Academy of Arts and Design Stuttgart. With a two-year grant she then worked at the Conservation Centre Liverpool and at Tate Modern London. Within the German Conservators Association (VDR) she co-founded the working group ‘Modern Art and Modern Materials’ (MKKM) in 2001 and joined the board as treasurer 2007-2009.
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Programme