Vivian van Saaze (V.E.J.P.)
Dr Vivian van Saaze holds a dual appointment as Associate Professor Museum Studies and Conservation Theory at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University and as Senior Specialist Modern and Contemporary Art at the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands.
Expertises
Museum and Heritage Studies
Conservation theory and ethics
Conservation and curating of contemporary art
Artists' legacies
Heritage and digitalisation
Ethnographic research methods
Career history
Vivian van Saaze specialises in the study of museum practices of curating and collection care, focusing on the challenges arising from digitalisation and new artistic genres such as installation art, digital art, and performance art.
Between 2015 and 2022, she was founding director for the Maastricht Centre of Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH), a transdisciplinary research center at Maastricht University. She also acted as interim project leader of the Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network New Approaches for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA), and was programme director of the Master’s Programme Arts and Heritage: Policy, Education and Management at Maastricht University.
Van Saaze (co-)authored several collaborative research projects such as Collecting the Performative, a research network between Tate and Maastricht University (with Prof. P. Laurenson), the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA) (with Prof. R. van de Vall), Printing on Demand: Printing Digital Based Artworks through a Collaborative Mode of Production (with M. Marchesi), and Terra Mosana, a euregional project aiming to investigate, digitalize and present the shared history of the Meuse-Rhine Euregion.