Center for Contemporary Art “Kim?” has started membership in the new online contemporary art documentation repository “Contemporary Art Library”.
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How does “Kim?” Contemporary Art Library is a non – profit organization that maintains one of the most popular contemporary art sites online – “Contemporary Art Daily”. The library is a growing archive of more than 370,000 images, documents, and videos that fully publicize “Kim?” Exhibition Archive – 160 entries since the start of public activities in 2009.
How does “Kim?” Representatives, the new library, the largest public archive of its kind, holds more than 370,000 images, documents, and videos featuring more than 12,500 exhibitions, performances, and other projects from the last 12 years of the Contemporary Art Daily archive. and additional documentation from 78 founding partners – art institutions and galleries around the world.
Continuing to complement the Contemporary Art Library, archivists plan to focus on regions that are still under-represented in archives: art spaces whose documentation may disappear from the public, as well as artist-led and alternative spaces that do not have access to a professional archive infrastructure. “Kim?” and the Vilnius Center for Contemporary Art are the only art institutions from the Baltics represented in this project.
The Contemporary Art Library has free access to the contemporary art documentation repository. Visitors to the contemporaryartlibrary.org library can search for artists or art spaces and browse a chronologically arranged list of exhibitions, performances, and other documented activities. Throughout the library, artists’ names and art spaces act as links. The Contemporary Art Daily, which continues to publish current exhibitions and other projects on a daily basis, will also include links to artist and art space recordings in the library. In the coming months, the library will add “Kim?” a section with a selection of publications and events issued by the institution.
As stressed by “Kim?” By combining and linking individual contemporary art documentation archives, the Contemporary Art Library will make it easier for students to master the field of contemporary art, for professionals to conduct in-depth research, and for artists to follow the work of contemporaries. By incorporating these elements of the documentation into a modern information storage system that will be updated, the library undertakes to keep them even in the event of the closure of the relevant art spaces and their websites. By making the processes of recent art history more accessible, as well as those that are easier to navigate, the library contributes to making the processes of learning contemporary art more inclusive.
“Kim?” The Contemporary Art Library’s participation in the Contemporary Art Library is supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation.
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