Annual Conferences since 1962
The first CIMAM Annual Conference took place on July 5th 1962 in The Hague. Since then the Committee has celebrated over 50 conferences that have been held in over 30 different cities around the globe. CIMAM’s Annual Conference has become an important meeting point for contemporary art professionals and an essential resource for the collaboration between museums, visual art professionals, artists and other institutions concerned with modern and contemporary art.
2023 — Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Co-Creative Museum: Social Agency, Ethics, and Heritage
2022 — Palma, Mallorca (the Balearic Islands), Spain. The Attentive Museum. Permeable Practices for a Common Ground
2021 — Lódz and Gdansk, Poland. Under Pressure. Museums in Times of Xenophobia and Climate Emergency
2020 — Postponed to 2021. Rapid Response Webinars
2019 — Sydney, Australia. The 21st Century Art Museum: Is Context Everything?
2018 — Stockholm, Sweden. The Museum in Transition
2017 — Singpaore. The Roles and Responsibilities of Museums in Civil Society
2016 — Barcelona, Spain. The Museum and Its Responsibilities
2015 — Tokyo, Japan. How Global can Museums Be?
2014 — Doha, Qatar. Museums in Progress: Public interest, private resources?
2013 — Río de Janeiro, Brazil. New Dynamics in Museums: Curator, Artwork, Public, Governance
2012 — Istanbul, Turkey. Museums Beyond the Crises
2011 — Ljubljana, Slovenia and Zagreb, Croatia. Museums and the City
2010 — Shanghai, China. Common Ground for Museums in a Global Society
2009 — Mexico City, Mexico. Fair Trade: The Institution of Art on the New Economy
2008 — New York, USA. The Shape of Memory: The Museum and It’s Collections
2007 — Vienna, Austria. Museums and Universal Heritage: Contemporary Institutions as Producers in Late Capitalism
2006 — London, United Kingdom. Contemporary Institutions: Between Public and Private
2005 — Sao Paulo, Brazil. Museums: Intersections in a Global Scene
2004 — Seoul, Republic of Korea. The Shifting Landscape of Contemporary Art and Asia
2003 — San Francisco, USA. Articulate Museums In a Digital Age; Games, Pirates, Communes: Digital Technology’s Impact on Art and Material Culture; When Art Meets Genetics: Challenges and Innovations; Moving Images: From Theater to Gallery and Back
2002 — Berlin, Germany. The Museum as a Statement. The Erosion of the Public Role of the Museum
2001 — Barcelona, Spain. The Role of the Museum & How It is Affected by Changes in the XXI Century
2000 — Budapest, Hungary. Does Contemporary Art Need Museums Anymore?
1999 — Jerusalem, Israel. Art in Divided Communities
1998 — Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Australia. Museums and Cultural Diversity: Ancient Cultures – New Worlds
1997 — Barcelona, Spain. Shifting Visions
1996 — Houston, Texas. Texans Talk; Surfs Up!: Museums on the Internet; Regionalism/Racism: Geography, Ethnicity and the Museum Agenda
1995 — Oslo and Stavanger, Norway. Dialects in Contemporary Art - The Norwegian Contemporary Art Situation
1994 — Tokyo, Japan. The Museum of the 21st Century – New Possibilities and Prospects
1993 — Antwerp, Brugge and Ghent, Belgium. Towards an Ethical Code; Ghent, Problems of Working Relations Between Museums; Brugge, Museum Collections and De-accessioning
1992 — Montreal and Quebec City, Canada. Defining the Territory of Art and of the Modern Art Museum
1991 — Havana, Cuba. Primer Encuentro de Investigaciones Sobre el Arte del Tercer Mundo
1990 — Los Angeles, USA. Perspectives on the State of Culture at the end of the 20th Century; Realities of the California Scene; Enlightened Sponsorship; Present Day Developments.
1989 — The Hague, The Netherlands. Power, Money and Museums
1988 — Helsinki, Finland. Problems Concerning Exhibition Making
1987 — Dubrovnik, Croatia. Being Between
1986 — Buenos Aires and Rosario, Argentina. Museums and the Future of Our Heritage: Emergency Call
1983 — London, United Kingdom. Tradition and Innovation: Interaction Between Traditional and Contemporary Art in a Developing World
1982 — Humlebaek, Denmark. The Future of Large International Exhibitions
1981 — Dusseldorf, Germany. Post-Modern or Contemporary? Modernity in 20th Century Art
1980 — Mexico City, Mexico. The Museums and Their Responsibility Towards The World Patrimony
1979 — Paris, France. Towards an Architecture for Modern Art Museums
1978 — Oslo, Norway. The Work of Art and its Context
1977 — Moscow and Leningrad, Russia. Museums and Cultural Exchange
1976 — Prato-Bologna, Italy. Centralization / Decentralization / Noncentralization
1975 — Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Netherlands
1974 — New York, USA. Museums of Modern Art and Their Public
1972 — Warsaw, Lodz and Crakow, Poland. The Modern Art Museum and the Artist
1971 — Paris and Grenoble, France. The Museum in the Service of Man Today and Tomorrow
1969 — Brussels, Belgium. The Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Society
1968 — Cologne and Munich, Germany
1965 — New York, USA
1964 — Paris, France
1963 — Paris, France. Problems of Museums of Modern Art
1962 — The Hague, Netherlands