Conservators at QAGOMA (Australia) and HCC (Singapore) have undertaken research investigating the materials of contemporary pre-primed artist canvases. This research enhances understanding of current...
Post-Graduate Fellowship in Time-based Media Conservation
The Düsseldorf Conservation Center offers a two-year, full-time post-graduate fellowship position in its newly established media conservation department. The fellowship provides the opportunity to...
Videos now online! - Symposium Contemporary Art Conservation Revisited: 20 yrs later
We're excited to announce that presentations are now available on our website and on YouTube. Thank you for your patience as we prepared the videos of these wonderful and inspiring contributions...
INCCA New Programing Series: Revisiting Interviews
In 1999, when INCCA was created to develop, share, and preserve knowledge related to contemporary artist materials and working methods, artist interviews were envisioned to be essential to collecting...
Living Matter: The Preservation of Biological Materials in Contemporary Art
Eggshells, flowers, onion peels, sponge cake, dried bread, breast milk—these are just a few of the biological materials that some contemporary artists have used to make art. But how can works made...
On May 2022, an in-person Speed Mentoring session was organised during the AIC annual meeting in Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Network (CAN!). 10 mentors each saw 4 mentees...
We would kindly like to invite you to a lecture by Tjaša Rijavec, titled ”Modelling the lifetime of PVC in collections”. The talk will look into the effect of environmental and intrinsic parameters on...
Dear INCCA members, We hope you’ve been doing well! We would like to apologise for our recent (and unintentional) absence. There were some technical problems with our newsletter last month; that’s why...
INCCA Café with M+ Museum: Looking Forwards and Backward
Opening a Large-Scale Cultural Institution during a Pandemic It amazes even those who were there that one the front line. Overcoming all odds, the staff of the M+ opened one of the most significant...
To encourage and facilitate our community, we’ve set up a Slack workspace as the designated interactive platform within the INCCA community. In the spirit of the INCCA Cafés, we aim at creating an...