CKV - 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 from within the M HKA and focusses on the conservation, sustainable public access and effective field development of visual art archives under public and private management. To this end, the CKV provides the services required to archive creators and legacy managers, identifies archive potential and expertise and deploys its own expertise to serve the field of visual art archives and legacies in Flanders.
CKV’s core purpose is to assign art archives a place in the public space. Through this, we try to raise awareness about and engage the field of art archives by promoting research on, contextualisation and social activation of these archives. The CKV takes a number of initiatives to this end, but primarily works with the networks it has in place.
The Flemish Centre for Art Archives aims to provide practical support via consultants, the provision of practical tools and well-timed activities to archive creators and legacy managers related to archive care or legacy management. The CKV belongs to a network of collection management institutions in Flanders and, where possible, mediates between archive managers and repositories. The Flemish Centre for Art Archives also pro-actively approaches artists who have been selected based on the valuation framework and methodology. The objective is to help make their archives accessible, contextualise them and socially activate them.
The leitmotif throughout the entire operation is expertise. The Flemish Centre for Art Archives has its own expert staff and, where necessary, calls in expertise from partners or third parties on behalf of the field. It focusses on expertise that has been internationally developed and is available. The Centre develops best practices and shares its experience with actors in the Flemish and international network.
De basis voor alle activiteiten en de leidraad bij de bepaling van de beste bestemming van een archief of nalatenschap is het waarderingskader. Dit kader is gericht op differentiatie en heeft niet als doel een ranking op te stellen of een canon te vormen. Een grondige kennis van het veld, die voortdurend geactualiseerd wordt, en een actieve netwerking in dit veld vormen de fundamenten voor een gerichte en doelmatige werking.
Het CKV streeft ernaar zoveel mogelijk kunstarchieven te ontsluiten, ongeacht wie of wat ze beheert, zodat ze op duurzame digitale platforms beschikbaar zijn voor consultatie, onderzoek, contextualisering en maatschappelijke activering.