Art Archives Study

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...

    Research Meeting at Moderna galerija, Ljubljana , 12-13 March 2024      Over the past year the project partners, Archive of Fine Arts in Prague, basis wien — Archiv und Dokumentationszentrum, and the Archive of Moderna galerija Ljubljana, have dedicated significant time to research. They have employed various methods to investigate the impact of the year 2004 on the art sector and how these effects can be identified, measured, and represented.      Alongside classical research methods and interviewing contemporary witnesses, they addressed queries directly to their own databases for finding and interpreting source material from the holdings of their archives,.      Each of these archives use relational databases not only for describing and indexing the objects within their collections but also for enriching them with supplementary data and linking them to persons, institutions, and events, such as exhibitions.    ...