Flemish Centre for Art Archives

The Flemish Centre for Art Archives is a hub for the distributed care of art archives and legacies. The organisation works autonomously at M HKA and focusses on the conservation, sustainable public access and effective field development of visual art archives under public and private management. Find out more about CKV’s development, mission, and vision here.

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‘This female artist gifted with masculine qualities’. About mapping forgotten female artists

Internship student Anke Vermeulen reports on her research into forgotten female artists.

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Cel Overberghe’s archive

Internship student Lisa Dierickx about opening up artist Cel Overberghe's archive

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The Museum as Public Space: Symposium on Archiving Performance Art

A report of the symposium 'Archiving Performance: Between Artistic Poetics and Institutional Policy' that took place on May 16, 2022.

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WORKSHOP – art archive do’s and don’t’s

CKV was a guest at the Kunsthal Ghent. Together we talked about what an archive makes, about why archiving, about how to structure and organize, about acid-free packaging, about digitization and much more!

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The Archive in its Many Forms: Ricardo Brey

Read more about the care for the archive of Ricardo Brey here, and also how documenting oeuvre requires special attention.

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Research Trajectory: Jef Verheyen

A trajectory with a focus on both the archive and the oeuvre of an artist. How can we do this?

Affiche voor Post-Performance Project 3, Vleeshal Middelburg, Nederland, 1981.

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Hugo Roelandt Archive

The CKV is opening the archive of Belgian artist, Hugo Roelandt (1950-2015) – one of Belgium’s preeminent pioneers of performance art in the 1970s and 80s.

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Luc Deleu Archive / T.O.P. Office

The CKV and the Flemish Architecture Institute (VAi) are looking into how to take care of the archive, knowledge and ideas of Luc Deleu / T.O.P Office sustainably.

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Outlined: Trajectory Oral History

Read more about our plans to use oral history in the service of archival care.