Program
Sunday, 29 May 2022
| 13:15-16:00 (optional) |
Optional visit to Het Loo Palace with Hanna Klarenbeek, Curator of Paintings, Prints and Drawings, Annette de Vries, Head of Curators and Renske Ek, Garder Curator of Het Loo Palace, Apeldoorn |
| 16:00-18:00 |
Registration and opening reception at Het Loo Palace, Apeldoorn offered by the General Representative of Flanders in the Netherlands |
Monday, 30 May 2022
Plenary session at the Mauritshuis, The Hague
Congress theme: ‘Art in Situ: What It Means to See Art in Its Original Setting’
Congress chair: Femke Diercks, Head of the Decorative Arts Department, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration with coffee and tea |
| 09:00-09:05 | Welcome by Martine Gosselink, Director Mauritshuis, The Hague |
| 09:05-09:15 | Introduction to the congress theme by the congress chair |
| 09:15-09:40 | Lecture: Religious Art in Museums and in Situ: What is Preferred? by Micha Leeflang (Curator of Medieval Art, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht) |
| 09:40-10:05 | Lecture: Powerful Storytellers – Reading and Understanding Collections in situ at Skokloster Castle & the Hallwyl Museum. A Country House and Townhouse Experience by Annika Williams (Curator, Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm) |
| 10:05-10:15 | Introduction to the In Full Bloom exhibition by Ariane van Suchtelen, Curator, Mauritshuis, The Hague |
| 10:15-11:05 | Coffee and tea break and visit to the In Full Bloom exhibition |
| 11:05-11:30 | Lecture: Period Rooms – Fact or Fiction by Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide (Curator of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) |
| 11:30-11:45 | Questions, remarks and discussion led by the congress chair |
| 11:45-12:15 | Case studies on the congress theme (part 1) |
| 1. Art and Illusion. Art in Situ in the Rubens House by Bert Watteeuw, Director, Rubenshuis, Antwerp | |
| 2. Hidden Behind the Façade by Thijs Boers, Curator of Applied Arts, Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam | |
| 12:15-13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15-14:15 | Case studies on the congress theme (part 2) |
| 3. Art in Situ: The Ghent Altarpiece by Stephan Kemperdick, Curator of Early Netherlandish and Early German Painting, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin | |
| 4. The Necessity for Studying and Reconstructing the Original Placing of Interior Paintings by Margriet van Eikema Hommes, Senior Specialist, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands | |
| 5. Operation Night Watch by Pieter Roelofs, Head of Paintings and Sculpture, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam | |
| 14:15-14:30 | Questions, remarks and discussion led by the congress chair |
| 14:30-15:15 | Time to travel to the locations of the in-depth study visits |
| 15:00-16:45 | In-depth study visits to: |
| 15:00-16:30 | 1 – Oranjezaal, Huis ten Bosch Palace, The Hague |
| 15:15-16:45 | 2 – Conservation Studio, Mauritshuis, The Hague |
| 15:15-16:45 | 3 – Duivenvoorde Castle, Voorschoten |
| 15:15-16:45 | 4 – Prince William V Gallery, The Hague |
| 17:30-19:00 | Drinks at The King’s Ballroom, The Hague |
| 19:00-22:00 | Congress dinner at The King’s Ballroom, The Hague |
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
Speakers’ Corner at Sint-Jan, Gouda
Congress chair: Ingmar Reesing, Curator, Museum Gouda, Gouda
| 9:00-09:30 | Registration at the Sint-Jan, Gouda |
| 09:30-09:35 | Welcome by Femke Haijtema, Director, Museum Gouda |
| 09:35-09:45 | Introduction to the Experience the Miracle of Gouda exhibition by Ingmar Reesing |
| 09:45-11:00 | Plenary visit to the Experience the Miracle of Gouda exhibition at Museum Gouda and the Sint-Jan |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee and tea break |
| 11:30-11:45 | A word from the Director of CODART |
| 11:45-12:40 | Speakers’ Corner |
| 12:40-12:50 | Closing of the day by the congress chair |
| 12:50-14:45 | Lunch at your own leisure and time to travel to the locations of the in-depth study visits |
| 14:45-16:15 | In-depth study visits to: |
| 1 – Dutch Collection Center, Amersfoort | |
| 2 – Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden | |
| 3 – Depot Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam | |
| 4 – Period Rooms at the Kunstmuseum, The Hague | |
| 5 – Tomb of William of Orange, Nieuwe Kerk, Delft | |
| 6 – Royal Palace Amsterdam, Amsterdam | |
| End of program | |
| Evening | Participants of the optional program in Gelderland on Wednesday 1 June can travel to this location on Tuesday evening by train at their own leisure and check in at their hotel (both to be booked individually). |
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
Optional program CODART 23
| Full day |
Full-day excursion to Gelderland. See separate programs for this day |
A PDF file of the program can be downloaded by clicking here.