Participants: Lisa Le Feuvre (Holt/Smithson Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico), Daniel Grúň (Július Koller Society, Bratislava), Iolanda Costide (Paul Neagu Estate, UK, London, United Kingdom), Irina Bitzan (Ion Bitzan Foundation, the Hague), Ioana Măgureanu (Simona Runcan Estate, Bucharest)

This international colloquium is convened by members of the Horia Bernea Foundation, some of whom will be present: Irina Cărăbaș, Ioana Măgureanu, Anca Oroveanu, Magda Radu, Ștefan Sava, Ioana Vlasiu.

PROGRAM:
10.00 Welcome and opening remarks

10:15 – 13:00
Part I: Presentations by representatives of the Foundations/Estates of the institutional body to which they are attached

Session I:

• Magda Radu: Horia Bernea Foundation, Otopeni/Bucharest
• Daniel Grúň: Július Koller Society, Bratislava
• Ioana Măgureanu: Simona Runcan Estate, Bucharest

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break

Session II:

• Lisa Le Feuvre: Holt/Smithson Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Iolanda Costide: Paul Neagu Estate (UK), London, United Kingdom
• Irina Bitzan: Ion Bitzan Foundation, the Hague

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 -16:30/17:00 [with a coffee break]
Part II: Panel discussion around a number of topics, such as:

• What would be in your view the most urgent things a foundation devoted to an artist should deal with?
• What have been so far the most difficult challenges in your activity?
• Establishing the corpus of works of an artist and all the activities related to this: cataloguing, inventory, locating works scattered around the world, deciding (or not) on the authenticity of a work; preservation, storage, restoration
• Financial means: how and where to look for them
• Relationships with other cultural institutions/organizations/associations, be they official, state-supported or private, academic or commercial: museums, collections, galleries, artist unions, ministry of culture, art school(s), auction houses, artists fairs etc. etc.
• Do you have a partnership with a gallery involved in the display and commercialization of the production of the artist to whom your foundation is devoted? What is your relationship with it? What tasks would be best accomplished by a gallery, in your view? Which of the entities (gallery/foundation) covers what costs?
• Positioning on the local, regional and international scene
• What other activities could a foundation initiate around the artistic legacy it cares for

In the first part of the colloquium some of these questions may have been touched upon, at least in passing. This shouldn’t preclude their revisiting. But other topics could be felt by this time to be more urgent, and the participants must feel free to introduce them.