Rome 2024
13th European Registrars Conference
When:
6-8 November 2024
Where:
Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone
Registrarte, the Italian Association of Registrars, is proud to be hosting ERC 24. The conference returns to Rome 22 years after its first edition hosted in our Country.
ERC 24 is an opportunity to delve the past, the present and future of the Registrar’s profession, the formal recognition and its ethical nature, as well as giving us a chance to discuss key topics and trends in the field as MADE IN ITALY, SUSTAINABILITY and NEW FRONTIERS.
The essence of ERC 2024 lies in the power of collaboration. It is through our collective efforts, thoughtful reflections, and open discussions that we have brought this vision to life. United by a shared belief in our mission, we have fostered a community where ideas flourish and common goals are pursued.
As registrars, we embody this spirit of cooperation, fully aware that the successful orchestration of exhibitions and the safe transit of art are triumphs of teamwork. Our commitment extends beyond the immediate tasks at hand, as we strive to address the broader challenges of sustainability. We are dedicated to discovering innovative solutions and more efficient practices, knowing that it is through global cooperation that we can pave the way for a more sustainable future and have a positive impact TOGETHER.
Rebecca Romere, President
Registrarte expresses its gratefulness to all delegates, sponsors, exhibitors, supporters, suppliers which made this conference comes true. A special thanks to the Association’s Board and Scientific Committee and to its partners for the evaluable work done during the last two and a half years.
Scientific Committee:
Rebecca Romere, President
Ghislaine Pardo, General Secretary
Enrica Passalacqua, Treasurer
Anna Chiara Ferrero, Facilitator
Daniela Sogliani, Communication
Alberto Mignani, AdvisorWith the collaboration of:
Wendela Brouwer, Chair, Dutch Registrars Group
Jen Kaines, Chair, UK Registrars Group
Eloise Stewart, previous Chair, UK Registrars Group
Daniele Dragoni, Account Director, MCI UK
Adele Della Sala, Press Office
Andrea Leoni, Lawyer, Studio Legale Leoni
Arianna Brizzi, Financial Advisor, PROFASS, Professionisti Associati(from the Conference Journal)
Conference program
Welcome to ERC24 TOGETHER
Rebecca Romere, President, Registrarte
Lucia Calzona, ICOM Italia
Francesca Tasso, Director of the Castle Museums, Archaeological and Historical Museums, Milan, Italy
Marzia Piccininno, Cultural Heritage Policies and Management, Fondazione Scuola dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali
Edouard Gouin, Convelio, CEO & co-founder
ERG Panel Session
Jen Kaines, Chair, UK Registrars Group
Wendela Brouwer, Chair, Dutch Registrars Group
Žaneta Adamová, Chair, Czech Republic Group
Rijksmuseum loans. How to build successful cooperations together
Janneke Martens, Eefje van der Weijden, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
SUSTAINABILITY
Declaration and Environmental guidelines. Europeans Registrar Group (ERG)
Thor Nørmark-Larsen, SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
The XPO’s eco-design of temporary and permanent exhibitions Manifesto
Panel with:
Stéphanie Likes, Federation XPO and Aprévu, Paris, France
Laurence Bagot, PXN (Association of Digital Experience Producers), Paris France
Can you legally buy a tiger? Do’s and dont’s when acquiring objects that contain endangered species
Wendy van Bohemen, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Courier Principles: the National Gallery, London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Assessing whether a courier is needed for loaned objects from the collection
Meryl Cohen, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Claire Hallinan, The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Janet Moore, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Sustainable Strategies for Museum Environments
Ashley Freeman, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, USA
Packing and sustainability, what can we do, now?
Pauline Bulot, Leïla Benaouran, Emeline Marquilly, Marine Raudin, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
HASENKAMP Sponsored Session – Art logistics and sustainability – how do they fit together?
Roman Wisst, Hasenkamp International Transports, Cologne, Germany
The Sustainable Museum, a Model to Create for a new Registrars Profession Approach
Helene Vassal, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
For an alternative sustainable shipment: Sea and rail freight?
Panel with:
Antonio Addari, CEO Arteria, Italy
Amelia Hunton, Associate Director Fine Art, Jewellery and Specie, Willis, London, UK
René Italiaander, Manager Museum and Gallery department, Hasenkamp group
Lapo Sergi, CEO Apice, Florence, Italy
Joanne Smith, Registrar, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Moderator: Hannah Wright, Thomas Dane Gallery, and regular volunteer from GCC
To send or not to send… and options in between! Recent updates to the V&A courier policy
Valerie Kohler-Regel and Ana Muñoz Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
Environmental awareness and material conservation: how to assess the current situation?
Stéphanie Likes, Association Aprévu, Paris, France
Celine Rince-Vaslin, Association AFROA, Paris, France
Registrars as Researchers: Exploring Sustainability in Touring Exhibitions and Collections
Jenna Shaw, Chris Higgins, Tate, London, United Kingdom
Sustainable eco-designed packaging: a cardboard solution promoted by a consortium of multi-professionals
Federico Aimaro and Christine Rhodes, EILOA, Paris, France
Histoire de ne pas rire – How to move towards more sustainable scenographies in a historical art centre
Ann Geeraerts and Marie Claes, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
Two Museums – Different Experiences Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and CAM-Gulbenkian Modern Art Centre
Ana Caldeira and Isabel Vicente, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal
MADE IN ITALY
The Codes of Ethics for registrars: a chat between Registrarte and ARCS
Rebecca Romere, Pistoia Musei, Italy and Registarte Board
Enrica Passalacqua, Fondazione MAST, Bologna. Italy and Registrarte Board
Sebastián E. Encina, Encina Museum Consulting, United States and ARCS Board
Sofía Galarza Liu, Spencer Museum of Art. The University of Kansas, United States
Panel Supported by BonelliErede, TARGET:Art Law for Registrars: emerging legal aspects of the international circulation of artworks, tax issues in collecting artworks, the liability of cultural entities and the codes of ethics
Prof. Avv. Manlio Frigo, BonelliErede
Avv. Francesco Sbisà, BonelliErede
Dott. Alfredo Malguzzi, TARGET
Dott. Pietro Villa, TARGET
Moderator: Avv. Silvia Stabile, Senior Counsel, TARGET
An insight from within the Museo Egizio’s Exhibition Department: Application to obtain the Ministerial Authorisation to process an outgoing loan
Valentina Brambilla, Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage: an Italian excellence
Capitano Lorenzo Galizia, Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Rome, Italy
APICE sponsored session – Fine Art Formalities for Dummies
Lapo Sergi, Apice and Istituto Palazzo Spinelli, Florence, Italy
The Strange Case of Venice
• The ebb and flow of Venice: our own artistic experience
Adeline Guy and Emer Birmingham, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom
• Installing artworks at Ca’ Corner della Regina: water challenges and floating solutions
Camilla Finzi, Fondazione Prada, Milano, Italy
Moderator: Anna Chiara Ferrero, independent registrar and Registrarte Board, Italy
Handling art-works in historical buildings: overcome barriers
Linda Pacifici, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy
Giulia Zanasi, La Venaria Reale, Venaria Reale, Torino, Italy
Ludovica Muscettola, Scuderie del Quirinale, Roma, Italy
Organizing an Exhibition in Venice; an outsider’s perspective with insiders’ advice
Elayne Rush, The Willem de Kooning Foundation, New York, USA
Mary Pontillo, Risk Strategies, Charlottessville, USA
Sirena Maxfield, Masterpiece International, Ltd., New York, USA
Working on exhibitions with living artists in different historical buildings. From Ai Weiwei to Anish Kapoor in Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy) and the Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)
Cristina Camaiti and Fiorella Nicosia Registrars and Production coordinator at Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy
Rebecca Bailey and Joanna Weston, Exhibitions Managers at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, United KIngdom
NEW FRONTIERS
New Awareness: Lights Up: Inclusive Exhibition design
Emma Smith. Wellcome Collection, London, United Kingdom
New Awareness: WILLIS Sponsored Session – Activism, vandalism and museum : is this the new normal?
Alessandra Capua, Director, Fine Art, Jewellery & Specie, Willis Towers Watson Northeast, Inc.
Urbano Nannelli, Associate – Client Service and Delivery, Fine Art, Jewellery & Specie, Willis Towers Watson Northeast, Inc.
New Acquisitions & New Territories: Museum Acquisitions: Everything, from everywhere, for everyone, forever and non-stop
Nickos Gogolos, M+ Museum, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
New Awareness: Repatriation
• Navigating Dutch Colonial Legacy: Repatriation within Ethnographic Museum collections
Wendy Boham, Wereldmuseum, Leiden, Netherlands
• Reshaping Heritage: Law, Logistics, and Learning from the Ni’isjoohl Memorial Pole’s Repatriation
Moderator: Jen Kaines, Head of Collection Services, Royal Armouries and President UKRG, United Kingdom
New Awareness: Exploring Ethical and Legal Dimensions in the Management of Human Remains Collections
Sara Mittica, University College London, London, United Kingdom. UK Registrars Group, London, United Kingdom
New Awareness: Women and Manual Labour – Re-framing the Landscape: Women in Art Handling
Annabel Stogdon, National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
New Awareness: Wellbeing and Registrars: A Personal Reflection
Katie Robson, Royal Armouries, Leeds, United Kingdom
New Acquisition: Abandoned archaeological heritage. Attempts by Polish registrars to bring it back through the acquisition process
Katarzyna Reszka, Museum of Warsow, Warsow, Poland
Małgorzata Sulkowska, Karkonosze Museum in Jelenia Góra, Jelenia Góra, Poland
Live Survey: Sustainability, where do we stand
Moderator: Eloise Stewart Head of Exhibitions – National Portrait Gallery London, UK
The future of the Registrar: The legal response to the challenges and opportunities of new technologies within museum practice
Emily Gould, Institute of Art and Law, Builth Wells, United Kingdom
New awareness: Copyright in digital reproductions of collection works – a perspective from the UK
William Charrington e Paul Jones, Team Farrer & Co
New Heritage: Backstage Managing a Luxury Fashion Archive Collection
Shaz Hussain, Tate, London, United Kingdom
New Heritage: Power, Protest and Place – managing risk and access to the Honours of Scotland
Ross Irving and Kathy Richmond, Historic Environment Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
New Territories: Saudi Arabia
• Saudi Arabia, the final frontier
Katy Spurrell, TheAimes, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Incoming and Outgoing Loans from Saudi Arabia
Jonathan Wilson, Royal Commission for AlUla, AlUla, Saudi Arabia
The Future of Registrars
• Tips, experiences, proposals to embark on the profession
Panel with:
Anna Chiara Ferrero, Independent Registrar and Registrarte Board, Italy
Elena Pelosi, Fondazione Scuola dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali, Roma, Italy
• Registrars: Training for the Future’: my personal experience as trainee registrar
Nuria Otermin, Royal Armouries, Leeds, United Kingdom
New Territories: France Muséums registrar team and the artworks registrar position in the UAE
Isabelle Hyvernat and Anaïs Desneaux, France Muséums, Paris, France
New Acquisition: Fantastic Voyage: shipping the David Bowie Archive to the V&A
Ana Muñoz and Lizzie Loughran, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
New Heritage: A Look Into the World of Private Collection Management
Kali Mercy, Perot Family Collections, Dallas, USA
Cortney Zusin, Tiffany Archives, Tiffany & Co., New York, USA
MISCELLANEOUS
SAFETY AT WORK: ARTERIA Sponsored Session – Art Handlers care about the safety of works of art but who cares about the safety of Art Handlers?
Antonio Addari, CEO Arterìa srl, Milan
Julie Prance, Head of Exhibitions, MOMART Ltd, London
Marco Bettini, Director HSE management Galileo Ingegneria S.p.A., Sasso Marconi (BO)
Working with an artist: dish soap, iron, and tortellini
Elena Incardona, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA
Hazards in Collections: How Registrars are Managing Risk, Expectations and the Unknown
Amy Brown, Science Museum Group, London, United Kingdom
Nadine Romaniszyn, Science Museum Group, Manchester, United Kingdom
Toward a European Facility report
Nicole Schmidt, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Cristina Mulinas Pastor, IVAM, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
OTEGO Sponsored Session – Heat protective covers: Enhancing Fire Preparedness for Cultural Collections
Grégoire Bernand, Responsable Produit – Protection du Patrimoine, Otego, Paris
France Véronique Declercq, Musée de l’Homme – Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
The Art of Moving International Exhibitions: The Art Illuminati Tell Their Tales
Panel with:
Birgit Vikas, Kunsttrans, Vienna, Austria
Lapo Sergi, APICE, Florence, Italy
Sarah Daguin-Coutsoloucas, Chenue, Paris, France
Simon Fors, MTAB, Stockholm, Sweden
Moderator: Jonathan Schwartz, Atelier 4, New York, USA
The Beirut Glass Project: a case study of recovery, reconstruction, and resilience
Sophie Szynaka, The British Museum, London, UK
Toolkit for transport tenders: application, comparison, and collaboration
Margot Leerink and Marthe Kes, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
How can insurers and institutions best cooperate, ARTE Generali sponsored session
Iris Handke, Chief Underwriting Officer and International Business Manager @ARTE Generali, Germany
Sara Mittica, Head of Collections Management, UCL Museums and Collections, University College London
A porte aperte
La professione del Registrar e cosa dicono di Noi. Organizzato da Registrarte