About CIMAM Releases

• CIMAM announces Los Angeles as Host for the 56th Annual Conference in 2024

  

  The 56th CIMAM Annual Conference will be held in Los Angeles from December 6th to December 8th, 2024. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and the Hammer Museum will jointly host the event, giving attendees an excellent opportunity to discover the city's exceptional contemporary art history, diverse culture, and vibrant artistic landscape.

• The CIMAM's 54th Annual Conference ends with the appointment of Suhanya Raffel as President of CIMAM 2023-25

  

  This year's CIMAM Annual Conference, hosted by Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma, was attended by more than 220 modern and contemporary art museum professionals from 49 countries to listen attentively and act in these times of post-pandemic, climate crisis, war, and resurgent conservative values.

• CIMAM's evolution from a mainly European “club" to a worldwide organization

  

  5 July 2022. On July 5, 1962, the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM) was founded by 23 European members at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague (The Netherlands) under the original French acronym CIMAM – Comité de l'ICOM pour les Musées d'Art Moderne (ICOM Committee for Museums of Modern Art).

• CIMAM announces a new Award and Working Groups 2020-22

  

  PR 15 January 2020. CIMAM announces the creation of a new award to acknowledge visionary practice within the museum sector.

• CIMAM Appointment of New President Mami Kataoka.

  

  PR 20 November 2019. CIMAM celebrates the success of its 2019 Annual Conference in Sydney and the appointment of its new President Mami Kataoka, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and Board members 2020–2022

• CIMAM 2019 Sydney & Elizabeth Ann Macgregor.

  

  PR 12 September 2019. Marking the culmination of Elizabeth Ann Macgregor’s commitment as President of CIMAM, its Annual Conference at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia will discuss the theme The 21st Century Art Museum: Is Context Everything?