The Attentive Museum—Permeable Practices for a Common Ground

The CIMAM 2022 Annual Conference will be held in Mallorca, Spain on November 11–13, hosted by Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, and can also be attended online.  

The three-day program includes three keynote, nine perspective presentations, three panel discussions, a networking session, workshops and visits to exhibitions in Palma.

CIMAM’s 60th anniversary (1962–2022), will reflect on the evolution of the museum sector through the testimonies of relevant figures of its 60-year history.

CIMAM offers more than 30 travel grants to support applicants’ curatorial and research development through their attendance at the Annual Conference. Deadline to apply 30 June.

From November 11–13, 2022, CIMAM will hold the 54th edition of its Annual Conference in the archipelago of the Balearic Islands, between Africa, Europe and the Middle East, to explore how museums can actively embrace, partner, and actively listen. It will also claim the urgency for museums to adapt and become spaces of shared encounter and hospitality, allowing themselves to be a permeable and vulnerable community capable of embodying multiple bodies; institutional, political, social, human, or non-human. 

The 12 speakers will reflect on the concept of The Attentive Museum and propose different models that can provide a roadmap for institutions through an exploration of new models of governance, and narratives of decolonial discourses, concluding with a vision beyond the museum world to collectives and new institutional models from which we can learn a more sustainable future.

Annual Conference registration form
Travel grant application form

Day 1: Changing from the Inside: How should we Govern Ourselves?
Historical perspective of CIMAM’s 60 years, by Mami Kataoka, President of CIMAM and Director, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, and Saskia Bos, Independent Curator and Critic, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Introduction by Imma Prieto, Director, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani, Palma, Spain
Paul B. Preciado, Writer and Curator, Paris, France/Spain
Suhanya Raffel, Museum Director, M+, Hong Kong, China
Meskerem Assegued Bantiwalu, Curator and General Director, Zoma Museum PLC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Iris Dressler, Codirector, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Panel Discussion moderated by Mami Kataoka, Director, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Day 2: Unlocking History and New Narratives
Denise Ferreira da Silva, Prof. Dr., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Clémentine Deliss, Associate Curator, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki, Visual Artist, Independent, Lima, Peru/Madrid, Spain
Sethembile Msezane, Visual Artist, Msezane Studios, Cape Town, South Africa
Panel Discussion moderated by Agustín Pérez Rubio, Independent Curator, Madrid

Day 3: Learning from the Community: Collective Actions in the Face of Emergency
Emily Jacir, Founder/Director, Dar Jacir for Art and Research, Bethlehem, Palestinian Territories
Lada Nakonechna, Artist, Method Fund, Kyiv, Ukraine
Philip Rizk, film-maker/artist, Mosireen video collective, Berlin, Germany/Cairo, Egypt
Kike España, Dr. Architect, Urban researcher, La Casa Invisible, Malaga, Spain
Panel Discussion moderated by Manuel Borja-Villel, Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

The new CIMAM Board for the period 2023-25 will be announced during the General Assembly in the context of the CIMAM Annual Conference.

Content committee 2022:
Manuel Borja-Villel, Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Saskia Bos, Independent Curator, and Critic, Amsterdam, Sarah Glennie, Director, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Mami Kataoka, CIMAM President, Director, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Malgorzata Ludwisiak, CIMAM Board Member, Chief Curator, Department of Modern Art National Museum in Gdansk, Agustín Pérez Rubio, (Chair of Contents Committee), Independent Curator, Madrid, Imma Prieto, Director, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, Palma, Mallorca, Berta Sureda, Independent Culture Researcher and Manager, Palma, Mallorca.

Travel grant funders 2022
The Getty Foundation, Byucksan Cultural Foundation, OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Mercedes Vilardell, SAHA – Supporting Contemporary Art from Turkey, and Beijing Public Art and Culture Foundation.