Dr. Sanneke Stigter is an art historian (1996 University of Amsterdam) and contemporary art conservator (2003 SRAL, Cum Laude). She is Assistant Professor in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the University of Amsterdam, for which she set up the Contemporary Art specialisation in 2007. She worked at the paintings conservation departments of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Frans Hals Museum De Hallen, and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, before becoming Head Conservator for Modern Sculpture and Contemporary Art at the Kröller-Müller Museum in 2004. She worked there for nearly eight years, also curating several exhibitions on art conservation. In 2016, she defended her PhD thesis: Between Concept and Material. Working with Conceptual Art: A Conservator's Testimony, in which she has combined her theoretical insight and museum experience. During her career, she has been a partner in many international research projects devoted to the conservation of contemporary art, both for the museum (Artist Interviews, Inside Installations and PRACTICs) and the university (New Strategies in the Conservation of Contemporary Art, NeCCAR, and NACCA). In addition, she has been the principal investigator for various NWO research projects: Interviews in Conservation Research, DIAL for Complex Artworks: Digital Index of an Artwork’s Life and as Comenius Teaching Fellow for Media Art Conservation Module. In addition, Stigter has been on the board of several artist estates, does editorial work, amongst others for kM, and is on the Steering Committees of the SBMK and INCCA. She was Assistant Coordinator of the ICOM-CC Modern Materials and Contemporary Art Working Group, and is Chair of the Board of the ICOM-CC Fund and of the Alumni Network Conservation and Restoration in the Netherlands. Her research interests lie in conservation theory, museum practice, oral history and artist participation, with a special focus on conceptual art, photo works and installation art. She has lectured and published widely on these topics, to be found on her university profile page:
www.uva.nl/profile/s.stigter