Vandalism and Art Conference
Dates: 8-9 June 2017

Venue: Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands

The conference is organised in collaboration with SRAL, Bonnefanten Museum, 
CeROArt, & MACCH

Organisation committee: Dr. Lydia Beerkens (SRAL, Maastricht); Kate Seymour, MA 
(SRAL, Maastricht); Professor Dr. Muriel Verbeek (CeROArt, Liege); Ingrid 
Kentgens (Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht); Professor Dr. Hildegard Schneider 
(MACCH, Maastricht); Louise Wijnberg (Stedelijk Museum).

This two day conference will allow all stakeholders to share their experiences, 
exchange ideas and define new polices when dealing with acts of vandalism. 
Decisions made when treating vandalised art works will be debated through case 
studies and new protocols for dealing with public awareness and management of 
social media will be addressed. Legal and economic issues and implications will 
be debated. 

Registration forms are available at 

http://www.sral.nl/nl/nieuws/conference-vandalism-art-june-8-9-2017-maastricht-netherlands/

Conference fee will be 195.00 Euro. Students (with proof) 30 Euro.

Deadline for Registration: 31 May 2017

Confirmed Contributions

Morwenna Blewett Hamilton Kerr Institute (UK) Criminal Damage and Cultural 
Property: The Curious Place of Movable Treasures.

Isabelle Brajer National Museum, Copenhagen (DK) The problem of vandalism on 
contemporary outdoor murals and street art.

Alain Colombini CICRP, Marseille (FR) The duality of Graffiti: is it vandalism 
or art?

Dr Esther van Duijn Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL) Vandalism and the Rijksmuseum: 
three vandalized paintings restored by Luitsen Kuiper in the nineteen seventies.

Begüm Gücük Istanbul Dogus University (TR) Vandalism over Vandalism.

Morwenna Blewett, Lynne Harrison, & David Peggie The National Gallery, London & 
Hamilton Kerr Institute (UK) Protecting Paintings from Vandalism: updating 
rapid response procedures at the National Gallery, London.

Liv Laumenech University of Edinburgh (UK) Exploring the Aftermath: Sir Eduardo 
Paolozzi’s Tottenham Court Road Mosaic Arches at the University of Edinburgh

Rachel Barker & Bronwyn Ormsby, with Melinda Keefe & Scott Wills Tate, London 
(UK) & Dow Chemical Company (USA) Mark Rothko: Untitled (Black on Maroon). 
Vandalism and its Legacy.

Tomas Markevicius, Sharon Miller, Bruce Banks & Nina Olsson Munchmuseet, Oslo 
(NO), Science Applications International Corporation at NASA J. Glenn Research 
Center, Nina Olsson Art Conservation LLC (USA) Monoatomic oxygen: a non-contact 
method for nanoscale cleaning of vandalised modern and contemporary artworks.

Md. Ali Nasir, Mahima Jain, Abhijeet Kumar National Museum Institute (IND) 
Restoration or Reconstruction ????

Tino Simon Hochschule for Bildende Künste, Dresden (DE) Deliberate damage to 
polychrome church interiors.

Norman H Tennent & Stephen D Field University of Amsterdam & Dudley 
Metropolitan Borough Council (NL & UK) Vandalism of the Winston Churchill 
appliqué glass screen: a story without an ending?

Carol Snow Yale University of Art Gallery (USA) Responding to White Supremacy: 
Public Images and Legacies at Yale University.

Sandra Weerdenburg et al. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL) The many forms of 
‘vandalism’ in relation to modern art.

Programme for the event is available on request: [email protected]
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