CONF: Die Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler in Relation zu Museen und Sammlungen (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München / online, 10-12 Apr 24)
Das Archiv der Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler, das sich seit 2015 im Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI) befindet, umfasst über 30.000 Karteikarten, ca. 8.000 Fotomappen und knapp 4.000 KundInnenkarten der Münchner Firma (gegr. 1880) sowie…
CONF: Collecting and Knowledge Production through Travel (2 sessions at RSA 2024, Chicago, 23 Mar 2:30-6:00pm)
PROGRAMME: 2:30 PM – Traveling Engineers and the Collection of Knowledge in the Seventeenth-Century English Empire; Hannah Kaemmer, Harvard University 2:50 PM – Annibale Carracci’s Arti di Bologna, Itinerant Tradesmen, Knowledge Networks, and…
CONF: Art, History, Exhibitions: Re-thinking Relationships – A Session of the UK Association for Art History Annual Conference (University of Bristol, 3-5 April 2024)
In 1981, American artist and writer Mary Kelly defiantly underlined how exhibitions have become primary tools for disseminating the history of art. Since the 1990s, following the establishment of curatorial studies, the proliferation…
CONF: Artists on the Move: Transnational and Transcultural Perspectives on Migration from the (former) Russian Empire, 1880–1939 (Yale-NUS-Studies / online, 7-8 March 2024)
The twentieth century was marked by several significant migratory flows from the Russian Empire and its successor states, which resulted in many artists living and working abroad. These diverse artistic relocations were already…
CONF: Von Provenienzforschung am Rande des Kolonialismus zu (trans)regionaler Museumsarbeit. Ein Zwischenabschluss (Lippisches Landesmuseum Dettmold, 29 Feb 2024)
Das Lippische Landesmuseum Detmold veranstaltet ausgehend von seinem vom Deutschen Zentrum Kulturgutverluste geförderten Provenienzforschungsprojekt „Am Rande des deutschen Kolonialismus? Die west- und ostafrikanischen Sammlungen des Lippischen Landesmuseums zwischen kolonialer Eroberung, Verwaltung, Missionierung und…
CONF: The Fashion of the ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’: Decentering Art Nouveau Style at International Exhibitions (Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberghaus, Darmstadt – 22-24 March 2024)
„Maison Moderne“ – programmatically, the advertising poster by the artist Manuel Orazi, displayed at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, proclaims a ‘new style’: the ornamentally dressed young woman, enthroned on a…
CONF: The Future of Collection Histories. Research, Cooperation and Exhibition (Museum Rietberg, Zürich – 2 March 2024)
After almost two years, the exhibition «Pathways of Art» at the Museum Rietberg, Zurich, ends on March 24. It is an exhibition that raises questions about the history of the museum and its…
CONF: Provenienzforschung und Fotografie (Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste, UB Leipzig / online – 18-19 April 2024)
Das Deutsche Zentrum Kulturgutverluste lädt herzlich zu seiner jährlichen Fachtagung ein! Dieses Jahr findet sie am 18. und 19. April 2024 statt und widmet sich dem Thema „Provenienzforschung und Fotografie“. Die zweitägige Konferenz…
CONF: Bridge-Building through Art Exhibitions during the Cold War Divide, the Fall of the Wall, and Beyond (Södertörn University, 21-22 Mar 24)
The focus for this workshop is to discuss and problematize two contrary perspectives on art: as a pivotal force in societal change, or as a tool for political regimes. Research on processes of…