Press release

HEIRLOOM is an art center dedicated to questions regarding archives. We reactivate art practices and collections, bringing them into dialogue with the present.

An heirloom is an object that travels through time and generations, imbued with ever-changing meaning, its value never clear-cut. This ongoing negotiation of meaning and value reflects HEIRLOOM’s approach to opening up archives.

HEIRLOOM seeks to broaden the diversity of the stories collected and encourage a more critical engagement with the material embedded in cultural heritage. Our ambition is to shed light on previously unseen connections and offer new perspectives on and contexts for the stories told.

HEIRLOOM was founded and is run by curators and art historians Stine Hebert and Johanne Løgstrup in response to the urgent need to document and make available the many histories of art