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Conference and exhibition I REMEMBER THIS, 8 October 2024

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The conference I REMEMBER THIS held on 8 October 2024, which was jointly organised by three archives on contemporary art that are part of the project Art Archives Study. Before and After 2004 was a one-day conference in Vienna with international guests that also met with great interest from students, artists, international archive partners and others.  In their joint two-year project co-financed by the EU, Moderna galerija Archives in Ljubljana, the Archive of Fine Arts in Prague and basis wien—Archive and Documentation Centre endeavoured to use their respective holdings to create a retrospective view of the change in the political landscape since the EU expansion by 10 countries in 2004. It was the first attempt by the three archives to trace a specific period of time on the basis of exhibition histories and their theoretical reflections through published texts and interviews, along with organisation of and the presentation at the conference I REMEMBER THIS. Preparations began w
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I REMEMBER THIS, Conference 8th October 2024        Looking back on 2004, the enlargement of the EU with the inclusion of ten new countries was a historic moment that was expected to bring about a change in the political, social, economic and cultural landscape of Europe.        In the field of art this process of transformation has been the subject of much reflection, in both individual works of art as well as in exhibitions and special programs. The project Art Archive Study. Before and After 2004, organized by three different archives, aims to reflect on related questions, answers and comments from an archival perspective 20 years later.        Moderna galerija Archives in Ljubljana, the Archive of Fine Arts in Prague and basis wien – Archive and Documentation Centre are attempting to take a closer look at this specific point in time by dealing with the holdings as corpora – archival bodies – and expanding this with traced sources, interviews and, finally, this conferenc
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