Museums and Immaterial Art is an interdisciplinary symposium that will focus on the intersecting fields
of conservation, research and education and learning in the museums’ work with temporal and
ephemeral works.

The discussions will take their point of departure in the conflicts between conventional,
artefact-based and historically founded museum practices and the genres of time-based and immaterial
art.

The objective is to promote theoretical as well as practical discussions of how museums can overcome
the challenges that apply to the conservation, research and education in relation to time-based and
immaterial art.
 
The symposium is planned around two focused sessions:
 
In the morning session three international keynote speakers have been asked to address a number of
specific issues that can shed light on the perspectives and consequences that arise in the relationship
between time-based and immaterial art and the museum. The morning session will be conducted in
English.
 
The afternoon session opens with an interdisciplinary panel discussion followed by a presentation of
Louisiana’s current exhibition: Marina Abramović, The Cleaner. The panel counts artists, conservators,
curators and researchers who will participate in the discussion with practical experience and theoretically
founded knowledge. The afternoon session will be in Danish.
 
Registration fee DKK 200,00. The fee includes entrance, coffee and lunch.
www.tilmeld.dk/museumsandimmaterialart/sign-up.html
 
Organizers
 
Birgitte Anderberg, Senior Curator, SMK
Tine Colstrup, Curator, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Louise Nicole Cone, Conservator Contemporary Art and Sculpture, SMK
Mads Kullberg, PhD., The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Miriam Watts, Research Coordinator, SMK
 
Questions about the symposium can be addressed to Birgitte.Anderberg@smk.dk
 
The symposium is a collaboration between
Statens Museum for Kunst, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Museum of Contemporary Art
 
The symposium is supported by Agency for Culture and Palaces