Centre for Art Archives Flanders
Caring for art archives
The Centrum Kunstarchieven Vlaanderen (CKV) is dedicated to caring for art archives in Flanders. CKV is a central hub for a distributed approach to caring for art archives and artistic estates. It operates as an autonomous organisation within Muhka, focusing on the preservation of visual arts archives, ensuring sustainable public access to them and fostering the development of an active professional field around archives managed publicly or privately.
The Centre works with archive creators from across the contemporary visual arts, including artists, artists’ collectives, galleries, art centres, curators, collectors, art critics and arts organisations. To serve this field effectively, CKV follows a distributed model in which preservation, care, interpretation and wider access are largely managed in a decentralised way.
