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  Study Workshop at Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, 21-22 August 2023      On 21 and 22 August 2023, participants from the partner institutions of the  ARTAS – Art Archives Study. Before and after 2004  project – the Archive of Fine Arts (Prague), basis wien (Vienna), and Moderna galerija (MG+MSUM, Ljubljana) – met for their second study workshop. The long-anticipated meeting took place at +MSUM, the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova in Ljubljana.       The two-year project  ARTAS – Art Archives Study. Before and after 2004  (2023–2024)  focuses on detecting changes in the way artists, curators, and institutions collaborated and connected under the new circumstances following the greatest enlargement of the European Union so far, which took place in 2004, especially in countries where the three participating archives are based. While based on statistical data analysis and standard research methods, the study also includes updating the data collections of the partner institutions and su
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    Study Workshop at basis wien, 3-4 April 2023   Early in April 2023 the partners met for their first workshop in Vienna. After a long preparatory phase, all participants were eager to get together for this two-day event at basis wien. The project Art Archives Study (ARTAS) aims to examine the changes brought on by the enlargement of the EU in 2004, with a special focus on Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovenia, where the three participating archives are based and which are the subject of their respective archives of documentation. The approach taken in this project is a two-fold one combining statistical data analysis with classical research methods. Based on their collection of structured meta data, each partner prepared a list of queries to serve as a starting point for deeper analysis. These queries, which were determined together and implemented at each of the archives in the preparatory phase of the project, were selected to create a common basis and to contain compat