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What we notice insufficiently: How challenges may install institutional precarity
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As a CIMAM member, you’ll enjoy exclusive benefits that advance your career, expand your professional network, and strengthen your voice within the global museum community.
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CIMAM Board Elections Guidelines 2026-28
Every 3 years, CIMAM members vote for their representatives and constitute the Board of Directors. The CIMAM Board is structured to ensure strong leadership and strategic decision-making.
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Enduring Game: Expanding New Models of Museum Making
The CIMAM 57th Annual Conference will take place in Turin (Italy), from November 28–30, 2025, and invites museum professionals to come together in a spirit of critical inquiry and collective imagination to explore the evolving role of contemporary art institutions in an increasingly complex global context.
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"Now is a pivotal moment for professionals to join the CIMAM Board"
In this video, Suhanya Raffel reflects on her nine years of service on the CIMAM Board—three of them as President—and invites active CIMAM members to stand for election for the CIMAM Board for the 2026–28 term.
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CIMAM to Host its 2026 Annual Conference in Harare, Zimbabwe
CIMAM announces that its 58th Annual Conference will take place in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 2026, hosted by the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. The first for the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art in Africa
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"This is a critical moment for us to reflect on our true representation"
Interview with Bart De Baere, Director of M HKA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, Belgium, and a long-standing board member of CIMAM. In this talk, Bart reflects on his journey with CIMAM and its broader significance in the global museum landscape.
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The success of contemporary art museums and its consequences. Changes Happened
June 10 2025. Contemporary art museums frequently seem to fall into crises. At the same time, the global proliferation of new contemporary art museums continues apace. Is the perception of crisis a reflection of reality, or are we overly focused on the large-scale perspective while overlooking local social and political contexts and conditions? Can we reframe these moments of crisis as situations that call for attention and communication?
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The Consequence of a New Standard
16 June 2025. Publicness starts with the building. While long-existing contemporary art museums gradually upgraded their infrastructure to meet changing expectations, many more recent museums grew rapidly. Sometimes the expansion of contemporary art museums is the outcome of a collective effort by both the art community and actors from civil society, as has been the case with the recently opened M+ (2021) in Hong Kong and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2024).
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What we notice insufficiently: How challenges may install institutional precarity
June 23, 2025. Is art lost in the new standardization of museums? The idealistic origin of these institutions still persists, but it often seems marginalized nowadays. It can still affect decisions within museums, and directors tend to evoke it in arguments to their funders as well as junior staff. In real terms, however, operational targets get more focus than strategic ones and hold the vision hostage. As a consequence, the improvisational agility of the early days is no longer possible.
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Survey: Best Practices for Museums Working with Living Artists
Fill in the form until 10 July 2025! CIMAM is launching an important initiative to develop a position paper on ethical principles to guide the relationship of museums working with living artists, with the aim of establishing fair, transparent and human-oriented collaborations in all types of museums around the world.
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CIMAM Joins the Culture for the Planet Alliance
The Culture for the Planet Alliance is part of the research-for-action project created in collaboration between two major universities, the University of Lausanne and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. This initiative brings together cutting-edge academic research and practical innovation to empower arts and cultural organisations to accelerate the sustainability transition.
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CIMAM Connects 2025
Review the proposed topics for the 2025 CIMAM Connects series and register for the sessions that interest you. This platform serves as a communication forum for CIMAM members who want to connect, share experiences and opinions, discuss challenges, and build new relationships. We invite you to connect!
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CIMAM's 2025 Rapid Response Webinar Program
Discover the program of CIMAM's Rapid Response Webinars for this year 2025, with contents that address urgent and current issues facing modern and contemporary art museums.
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Enjoy and Join the CIMAM Free Admission Program
Let's embark on a journey of cultural exchange and inspiration. Enjoy CIMAM's Free Admission Program and get free access to over 350 modern and contemporary art museums, collections, and biennials worldwide. Join the program as an institutional member to welcome more than 800 museum professionals to your museum!
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Here you will find our latest news about programs, open calls, job positions, museum watch actions, and much more. Don't lose sight of CIMAM's news section!