THE INSTITUTE’S INAUGURAL CONFERENCE ‘KEEPING THE LEGACY ALIVE’ WILL BRING TOGETHER ARTISTS AND ARTISTS’ ESTATES FROM ACROSS EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES TO DISCUSS ASPECTS OF ARTIST ESTATE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT. THE SUCCESSFUL CONTINUATION OF AN ARTISTS’ LEGACY CAN BE DEFINED BY THE WAY IN WHICH FUTURE GENERATIONS OF CURATORS, ACADEMICS AND COLLECTORS FIND THEIR OWN, FRESH WAY INTEREST IN AND UNDERSTANDING OF AN ARTIST’S WORK. LOOKING AT THE MANAGEMENT OF AN ARTISTS ESTATE FROM VARIOUS ANGELS AND LEARNING FROM OTHER ARTIST’S ESTATES IS THE AIM OF THIS TWO-DAY CONFERENCE.
PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY, 14TH OF SEPTEMBER 2016, 9.30am
REGISTRATION
WELCOME
1. OPENING LECTURE
Prof. Dr. John Welchman, Chair of the Mike Kelley Foundation’s board of directors
‘Artistic authorship: Timeless and Authorless’
2. FACING DIFFERENT CHALLENGES IN DIFFERENT PHASES OF AN ARTISTS‘ ESTATE
Christy MacLear, Executive Director Rauschenberg Foundation
‘Building The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’
Dr. Loretta Würtenberger, Director The Institute for Artists Estates
‘Back to Square One: Jean Arp – Repositioning of a Long-Established Estate’
3. ‘ALL FATHERS DIE, NOT THESE! ARTISTS’ ESTATE MANAGEMENT AS AN FAMILY AFFAIR’
Moderated by Magda Salvesen, Author of the Book Artists’ Estates: Reputations in Trust
Hélène Vandenberghe, Estate Philippe Vandenberg
Mayen Beckmann, Estate Max Beckmann
Mary Moore, Henry Moore Estate
LUNCH
4. ARTISTS ESTATES & MUSEUMS
Dr. Arie Hartog, Director Gerhard Marcks Haus
Joost Declercq, Director Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
Dr. Thomas Köhler, Director Berlinische Galerie
5. STRATEGIES FOR ARTISTS’ ARCHIVES
Dr. Dietmar Elger, Head of Gerhard Richter Archiv
N.N.
Barry Rosen, Artists’ Estates Advisor
DINNER
THURSDAY, 15TH SEPTEMBER 2016, 10am
1. OPENING LECTURE
Claudia Andrieu, Legal Adviser Administration Picasso
‘The Thing with authentication – On Problems and Moral when Authenticating Artworks of a Superstar’
2. CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS – WHEN FORM IS FUNCTION
David Nash, Mitchell, Innes & Nash – Co-Author of the Catalogue Raisonné Cézanne
Dr. Arie Hartog, Director Gerhard Marcks Haus, on Catalogue Raisonné of Sculptors
Dr. Andrea C. Theil, Catalogue Raisonné Manager Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
3. STRATEGIES FOR MID-SIZE ARTISTS’ ESTATES
Hélène Vandenberghe, Estate Philippe Vandenberg
Muna Tseng, Estate Archive of Tseng Kwong Chi
Marc Waugh, DACS 360
LUNCH
END OF CONFERENCE