Es Baluard will host in 2022 the international congress of museums of modern and contemporary art

The Es Baluard museum will host in 2022 the international congress CIMAM – International Committee of Museums and Collections of Modern Art-, the only worldwide association of experts in modern and contemporary art museums.

Es Baluard’s candidacy has been the winner among the proposals from different cities and has been announced at the 2021 CIMAM annual conference held in Poland from November 5 to 7.

Thus, the 54th edition of the International Committee of Museums and Collections of Modern Art will take place in Es Baluard in November 2022, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of CIMAM.

In her speech in Poland, after the announcement of the CIMAM reception in 2022, the director of Es Baluard, Imma Prieto, thanked the CIMAM Board of Trustees for having valued the museum’s proposal “so positively”, as well as the support received from public and private institutions.

Es Baluard’s candidacy has been the winner among the proposals from different cities. Photo: Es Baluard.

“First and foremost, museums are knowledge-generating spaces and we activate the critical spirit, that is why the congress becomes the ideal structure to promote and share the exchange of ideas, objectives and needs with the sole purpose of nurturing our societies from their plurality and diversity, as well as to face together the transformations that the future urgently requires ”, he added.

The candidacy presented by Es Baluard was based on a proposal based on the three lines of research that strengthen the museum’s identity. These are “Collection. Archive and Visual Memory “,” City. Art and Communities ”and“ Imaginaries and visualities ”.

For her part, the president of the Consell de Mallorca and president of the Es Baluard Museu Board of Trustees, Catalina Cladera, described it as “magnificent news that Es Baluard is the next headquarters of CIMAM, a milestone that implies that Palma, Mallorca and the Balearic Islands thus become a world cultural and museum capital and an international benchmark. ”Cladera also recalled” the effort and work of the museum both to weave a network in Mallorca and the Balearic Islands and with a view to external projection “.

Josep Mallol Vicens, president of the executive committee of Es Baluard, said: “We are very satisfied that Mallorca, after Barcelona, is the second headquarters of the Spanish State to host this international conference, which will be a meeting point for professionals in the museum field from all over the world and represents an important opportunity for the future projection of the museum ”.