Program
Sunday 11 March
| 14:30-17:00 | Optional City Tours:
Tour 1: Church tour with Benoit Kervyn, Tour 2: Cycle tour along the Veste with Elien Vernackt, |
| 17:00-19:00 | Registration and opening reception at Restaurant B-IN |
Monday 12 March
Opening session at Vriendenzaal Groeningemuseum
Congress theme: Old Masters, Old-Fashioned?
Congress chair: Jacquelyn N. Coutré, Bader Curator and Researcher of European Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-09:05 | Welcome by Till-Holger Borchert, Director of Musea Brugge |
| 09:05-09:10 | Welcome by Chris Stolwijk, Director of the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague, main cooperating partner of CODART |
| 09:10-09:15 | Introduction to the congress program by the congress chair |
| 09:15-09:45 | Lecture: Old Masters, New Perspectives by Esmée Quodbach, Associate Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library, New York |
| 09:45-10:15 | Lecture: Reflections of an Old Master Curator, 1978–2018: Was the Grass Really Greener 40 Years Ago? by Jane Turner, Head of the Print Room, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
| 10:15-11:00 | Coffee and tea in hall downstairs at Groeningemuseum |
| 11:00-11:30 | Lecture: Old Masters, New Audiences by Bendor Grosvenor, art historian, writer, dealer, presenter of the BBC4 series “Britain’s Lost Masterpieces”, researcher for the BBC1 art programme “Fake or Fortune?” |
| 11:30-12:00 | Questions, remarks and discussion |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch in hall downstairs at Groeningemuseum and free time to visit the collection |
| 13:30-14:45 | Statements on the congress theme and discussion in the Vriendenzaal |
| 13:30-13:35 | Introduction by the congress chair |
| 13:35-13:50 | Statement by Elsje Janssen, Scientific Director of Collections at the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Antwerp How to Entice People to an Altarpiece |
| 13:50-14:05 | Statement by Jan Van Der Stock, Professor at the University of Leuven and Exhibition Curator Museum and University: A Partnership That Makes Sense |
| 14:05-14:20 | Statement by Marrigje Rikken, Head of Collections at the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem The Opportunities and Challenges of Transhistorical Displays: The Frans Hals Museum and Other Examples |
| 14:20-14:40 | Questions, remarks and discussion |
| 14:40-14:45 | Closing of the day by the congress chair |
| 14:45-15:30 | Time to walk to excursion venues |
| 15:30-17:00 | Excursions (the first three excursions are offered on Monday as well as on Tuesday):
Excursion 1: In-depth visit Musea Brugge: behind the scenes with Till-Holger Borchert, Director Musea Brugge, Griet Steyaert, Conservator, and Nadia Vangampelaere, Policy Officer Collection and Documentation, Musea Brugge, Bruges Excursion 2: Tour around the Sint-Janshospitaal complex including the attic of the Broederenklooster and Zusterklooster with Ruud Priem, Chief Curator, Sint-Janshospitaal, Musea Brugge, Bruges Excursion 3: Gruuthusemuseum Hard Hat tour with Aleid Hemeryck, Curator, and Inge Geysen, Assistant Curator, Gruuthusemuseum, Musea Brugge, Bruges Excursion 4: The Adornes Domain and the Jerusalem Chapel with Noël Geirnaert, honorary Chief Archivist of the Bruges City Archives Excursion 5: In-depth visit exhibition Haute Lecture by Colard Mansion with Evelien de Wilde, Assistant Curator, Musea Brugge, Evelien Hauwaerts, Researcher Medieval Manuscripts, and Ludo Vandamme, Scientific Associate, Public Library, Bruges |
| 19:00-22:00 | Congress dinner at Brewery De Halve Maan |
Tuesday 13 March
Speakers’ Corner at Concertgebouw Brugge
Congress chair: Stephan Kemperdick, Curator of Early Netherlandish and Early German Painting, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
| 09:30-09:40 | Opening of the day by congress chair |
| 09:40-09:50 | Festive Speech on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of CODART by Christi Klinkert, Curator at Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar |
| 09:50-10:05 | CODART column by director CODART |
| 10:05-10:10 | Speakers’ Corner: introduction |
| 10:10-10:50 | Speakers’ Corner, part 1 |
| 10:50-11:30 | Coffee and tea |
| 11:30-12:20 | Speakers’ Corner, part 2 |
| 12:20-12:30 | Closing by congress chair |
| 12:30-14:30 | Lunch at your own leisure and time to travel to excursion venues |
| 14:30-16:00 | Excursions |
| Excursion 1: In-depth visit Musea Brugge: behind the scenes with Till-Holger Borchert, Griet Steyaert and Nadia Vangampelaere
Excursion 2: Tour around the Sint-Janshospitaal complex including the attic of the Broederenklooster and Zusterklooster with Ruud Priem Excursion 3: Gruuthusemuseum Hard Hat tour with Aleid Hemeryck and Inge Geysen Excursion 4: Remarkable Murals in private houses with guide Anna Vandewalle and Eva Tahon, Curator, Gruuthusemuseum, Musea Brugge, Bruges Excursion 5: In-depth visit to the Print Room of Musea Brugge with Virginie D’haene, Assistant Curator Prints and Drawings, and Evelien de Wilde, Assistant Curator, Groeningemuseum, Musea Brugge, Bruges Excursion 6: Sculpture: The Emperor Charles Chimney Breast at Het Brugse Vrije, and the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk, with Anne van Oosterwijk, and Kristel Van Audenaeren, Assistant Curators, Groeningemuseum, Musea Brugge, Bruges |
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| 16:30-18:00 | Informal farewell drinks at Bruges Beer Experience |
| End of program |
A PDF file of the program can be downloaded here.
