From acquisition to exhibition. Collection management of modern works on paper at KMSKB

With an eye toward new generations of art historians, curators and researchers, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium propose a series of three talks on the Belgian avant-garde, the specificities of museum work and the role that paper plays within these contexts. This event will be concluding the research project ​“BePaper - Belgian Art on Paper in a European Perspective. 1918−1950” that started in 2020.

**This conference will be held in Dutch**
What does working with a museum collection of modern works on paper entail? From the acquisition to the exhibition, with insights on technical and historical research as well as conservation and collection management this talk wants to give an overview on the specificities that museum curators and researchers encounter when working with art on paper.

Laura Kollwelter is a scientific researcher at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, where she has operated as a researcher on several projects, including BePAPER - ​“Belgian Avant-Garde Art on Paper from a European Perspective, 1918-1950” (2020−2024) and ​“Before and after? Continuity or rupture? Belgian art around World War I” (2016−2018).

Sarah Van Ooteghem joined the team of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (RMFAB) in 2022 as curator of modern art on paper (19^th-21^st century). She previously worked as assistant curator at the Fondation Custodia/​Frits Lugt Collection in Paris and at the Print Room of the Royal Library of Belgium.

Lise Vandewal currently works as a scientific researcher for the FRIABLE project at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, researching the provenance and exhibition history of modern artworks on paper in friable media from the collection of the Fin-de-Siècle Museum.