DAN PETERMAN: Thinking Through Art Loans

International environmental artist, Dan Peterman, shares his experience about damage to his artwork loaned to Documenta, one of Europe's most important modern art exhibitions. Peterman and other experts demonstrate how making assumptions can create immense challenges in protecting a loaned artwork while providing solutions to make informed decisions.

Screened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2021

Dan Peterman

Since the mid 1980's Dan Peterman has combined innovative strategies of local engagement and activism with national and international art projects, exhibitions and installations. Peterman explores intersections of art and ecology, frequently focusing on networks of recycled, or discarded materials that function interchangeably as stockpiles, sculpture, functional objects, and critiques of environmental oversight and neglect.

Peterman is an Associate Professor in the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His works have been exhibited at Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, Germany, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Venice Biennial, Italy; Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven, NL, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Switzerland; Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; among other venues.

Dieter Roelstraete

Curator, Neubauer Collegium, University of Chicago

Michael Darling

Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer, Museum Exchange; Former Chief Curator, MCA Chicago

Peter Kenar

Art Conservator, Methods and Materials, and Visual Artist

Rebecca Woan

Principal and Founder, Chartwell Insurance Services