19 March 2026

13:30 - 14:00

Conference Registration

14:15 - 16:00

Collaborative Networks of Care

The Constellation of Care in an Artist’s Legacy: A Personal Experience about Gladis Triana and her CALL/VoCA program Ruth del Fresno-Guillem

 

Preserved Archive as a Manifestation of Female Emancipation? The Situation of Selected Women Artists from the Former Yugoslavia as a Case Study Marika Kuzmiz

 

Soft Networks: A Case-Study in Creative and Collaborative Legacy Work Rachel Middleman & Chelsea Spengemann

 

Caring for Ferdi Tajiri's legacy: Making Time and Sharing Time in the Museum Renée van de Vall, Charlotte Franzen & Paula van den Bosch

16:30 - 18:00

Emergent Practices in the Work of Forming Legacies: Attending to Artists’ Wishes and Rights, Ownership, Responsibilities, and Commoning Practices

Residue of Treasures and Traces: Visualization and Verbalization of Artist’s Legacies Miriam Windhausen

 

Agency’s Praticothèque : Artistic Legacy as a Living Collective Practice Katrien Reist & Alice Mahiant (Agency)

 

Copyright, Inheritance, and Collective Rights for Artists in the Netherlands Babat Belder (Pictoright)

 

The Art Companion: On art practitioners accompanying fellow practitioners through death Valentina Curandi

18:00 - 19:30

Self Organised Dinner Break

19:30 - 20:30

Keynote 

EAVATEA, Archipelagos of Artistic Practices: A Relational Infrastructure as a Dynamic Archive

Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans (Jubilee)

20 March 2026

09:00 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 09:45

Opening

09:45 - 16:00

All day intervention

Who else leaves? A research studio exploring non-artists’ legacies Ruth Benschop 

09:45 - 11:30

Market Values and Transfers of Wealth

Entangled Custodianship: Networks of Knowledge, Expertise and Familial Authority in the Indonesian Art Market Eliza O’Donnell

 

Reprinting: Contemporary Approaches to Photograph Conservation Luca Ackerman 

 

Avoiding tax through art: the naturalisation of tax avoidance through art appraisal in The Netherlands Bronte Isabella 

 

Estates and Legacies Between Public Benefit and Private Gain: The case of Jacques Doucet Alessia Pannese

09:45 - 11:30

Estates, Sites, and Intersecting Structures of Care

The Eyck Collection: How to Transmit Artworks’ Legacies Artemis Rüstau

 

Monumental Sculpture, the Artist-Driven Legacy, and Networks of Care John Hobson

 

„Unfaded“ – The Artistic Legacy of Gerhard Altenbourg in Altenburg (1926–1989) Silvia Schmitt-Maaß

 

The Collection Stauthamer-Smit: A Case Study of a Suddenly Inherited Collection Aagje Gosliga & Willemijn de Neef

11:45 - 13:00

Affects and Emotions 

Careful Caring: researching the personal archive of Shinkichi Tajiri Jade Poolen

 

The Bittersweetness of Working Through E(motional)state Ana Schäffler

 

Echoes from the Eighties: The Gerard Caris Estate as a Time Capsule in the Dutch Art Scene  Lydia Beerkens

11:45 - 13:00

The Contested Lives of Artists' Estates: Rights and Responsibilities

Remaking Derek Jarman’s Blue James Boaden

 

Unfinished Business: The Legal and Curatorial Power of Accidental Works Emma Waring & Michael White 

 

Who cares for Turner? The afterlives of an unruly bequest Richard Johns

14:00 - 15:15

Between Public and Private: Caring for Artists' Estates Together

Strategies for Safeguarding Legacies in Contemporary Classical Music: Insights from Five Flemish Pilot Projects Justine Van Gysel, Staf Vos & Melissa Portaels

 

Caring Together: Building Futures for Artistic Legacies Nele Luyts

 

Hybrid Governance and Responsibility in Contemporary Artists’ Estates: Public Private Collaboration, Care, and Access Annick Schramme & Laura D’Hoore

14:00 - 15:45

What the Body Leaves Behind: Transmission, Heritage, and Archivization in Dance

What the Body Leaves Behind: Transmission, Heritage, and Archivization in Dance Timmy de Laet

 

Interstitial Times: The Anecdote as a New Method of Dance Transmission? Sara Wookey

 

DanceMap: Politics, Technologies and Ethics of Dance Heritage Simon Ellis 

 

Processual politics, performance documentation, and the integrity of practice through choreopolitics Helen Grogan

16:00 - 17:45

Legacy Building: Connecting Frameworks and Negotiating Knowledge

Invisible Inheritance: Fragmented Knowledge from Technologically-Oriented Artists’ Studios and Their Networks Tiziana Caianiello & Francesca Pola

 

Who Cares After the Artist? Conservation, Authority, and the Donald Judd Legacy Shelley Smith

 

Beyond Individual Responsibility: Toward Shared Stewardship Solana Chehtman

 

Knowledge Control: Artists' Estates and Conservation Eleonora E. Nagy & Mareike Opeña  

17:45

Drinks

21 March 2026

Excursion to:

Kasteel Wijlre Estate

 

or

 

Huis Windhausen (Roermond)

 

more information will follow