Vivian van Saaze (V.E.J.P.)
Research profile
She specialises in the study of museum practices of curating and conservation, focusing on the challenges arising from digitalisation and new artistic genres such as installation art, digital art, and performance art by integrating theories and methods from ethnography, museum studies, and Science and Technology Studies.
Research projects
Contemporary Art: Who Dares? In dialoog zorgen voor hedendaagse kunst, (2026-2028) ondersteund door het FARO Uitvoeringsprogramma, coördinatie Stichting Behoud Hedendaagse Kunst: Contemporary Art: Who Dares? - In dialoog zorgen voor hedendaagse kunst
- COST-Action European Media and Born-digital Art Conservation and Knowledge Network (EMBARK) (2025-2029), coordinated by Restaurierungszentrum Duesseldorf, funded by the European Union: Action CA24129 - COST
- Print on demand: Printing digital-based artworks through a collaborative mode of production (2024-2025), Museumbeurs with Monica Marchesi, funded by NWO: Print on demand: Printing digital-based artworks through a collaborative mode of production | NWO
- Terra Mosana, enhancing digital heritage in the euregio (2018-2021) was executed within the context of Interreg V-A Euregion MeuseRhine, and coordinated by the University of Liege. Financed by the European Regional Development Fund, the Walloon Region, the Provinces of Limburg (NL and B) and the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, : www.terramosana.org
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA) (2014-20190, coordinated by Maastricht University, and funded by the European Union H2020 Programme (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014) under Grant Agreement n°642892: www.nacca.eu
- Collecting the Performative: A research network examining emerging practice for collecting and conserving performance-based art (CtP) (2012-2014), coordinated by Tate and Maastricht University, funded by AHRC and NWO: http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/collecting-performative
- Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art Research (NeCCAR) (2012-2014) coordinated by Maastricht University, funded by NWO: http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/neccar-network-conservation-contemporary-art-research
- New Strategies in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NewS) (2009-2015) funded by NWO, coordinated by Maastricht University: https://www.nwo.nl/en/research-and-results/research-projects/i/05/4905.html
Inside Movement Knowledge (IMK) (2008-2010) funded by RAAK, coordinated by Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten: http://insidemovementknowledge.net
- Inside Installations (2004-2007) funded by the European Union, coordinated by Instituut Collectie Nederland: http://www.inside-installations.org/home/index.php
Key publications
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van Saaze, V. E. J. P. (2013). Installation Art and the Museum. Presentation and Conservation of Changing Artworks. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.26530/oapen_449202More information about this publication
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van Saaze, V., Wharton, G., & Reisman, L. (2018). Adaptive Institutional Change: Managing Digital Works at the Museum of Modern Art. Museum & Society, 16(2), 220-239. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v16i2.2774More information about this publication
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Laurenson, P., & van Saaze, V. E. J. P. (2014). Collecting Performance-based Art: New Challenges and Shifting Perspectives. In O. Remes (Ed.), Performativity in the Gallery: Staging Interactive Encounters (pp. 27-41). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0561-6/13More information about this publication
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van Saaze, V. E. J. P. (2015). In the absence of documentation. Remembering Tino Sehgal's constructed situations. Revista de História da Arte, 4, 55-63. http://revistaharte.fcsh.unl.pt/rhaw4/RHAw4.pdfMore information about this publication