1997: Modern art conservators and curators from all over the world participated in the Amsterdam symposium ‘Modern Art: Who Cares?’. Participants at the symposium agreed to share their knowledge and experience, and to collaborate in collecting new information by means of artists’ interviews. A book of the same name was published in 1999 and consists of a comprehensive description of case studies from the project ‘Conservation of Modern Art’ and the decision-making and registration models developed. It also includes the entire texts of the symposium, lectures, forums and seminars.

INCCA meeting ICN, October 2002

1999 - 2002: A group of 23 individuals from 11 organisations established INCCA; the founding project was supported by the European Commission’s Raphael Programme. During this project, the INCCA website and databases were developed and a substantial amount of artists’ information collected. Almost 100 hundred artists’ interviews were conducted and from this experience a Guide to Good Practice was created. INCCA founding members:

• Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage / ICN, Amsterdam
  • IJsbrand Hummelen, Tatja Scholte, Dione Sillé
• Tate Gallery, London
  • Derek Pullen, Jo Crook, Byrony Bery, Jackie Heuman
• Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
  • Frederika Huys
• Restaurierungszentrum der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
  • Cornelia Weyer & Gunnar Heydenreich
• Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York/Bilbao
  • Carol Stringari
• Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi/ Konservatorskolen, Copenhagen
  • Mikkel Scharff, Bent Eshøy, Louise Cone
• Fundacio ‘La Caixa’ / Centre Cultural de Barcelona
  • Cecilia Illa Malvehy
• Galeria d’Arte Moderna, Turin
  • Antonio Rava
• Academy of Fine Art / Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art, Warsaw
  • Iwona Szmelter, Monika Jadzinska
• Museum Moderner Kunst / Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
  • Hester Stoebe
• Foundation for the Conservation of Contemporary Art / SBMK, The Netherlands
  • Andrée van de Kerckhove (Kröller-Müller Museum), Vincent de Keyzer (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag), Christiane Berndes (Van Abbemuseum), Lydia Beerkens (private conservator, on behalf of the Van Abbemuseum)

May 8 & 9, 2004: INCCA presented in North America for the first time. The meeting was organised by Carol Stringari and took place in the Guggenheim's Sackler Center for Education, New York. IJsbrand Hummelen, Tatja Scholte and Alberto de Tagle (ICN) gave an INCCA Database workshop. On day 2, Caitlin Jones and Carol Stringari presented the Variable Media Questionnaire, which had been initiated and developed by Jon Ippolito, and further developed by Caitlin Jones and Alain Depocas.

2004-2007: Group of around 40 INCCA members from 25 museums work together on the INCCA affiliated project Inside Installations: Preservation and Presentation of Installation Art, supported by the European Commission’s Culture 2000 programme.

January 2006: Launch INCCA North America.

12 December 2006: Louise Cone (Statens Museum, Copenhagen) becomes INCCA Scandinavia coordinator.

21 December 2006: Launch INCCA Member Administration website. Through this website members can:

• create and edit thier own records for the INCCA Database for Artists' Archives
• search the INCCA Database for Artists' Archives
• update their contact details
• search for INCCA members

9 March 2007: Network by-laws adopted.

21 May 2007: INCCA presented in France at database workshop. The meeting was organised in collaboration with the Centre de recherche et de restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF) and hosted at Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC/VAL), Paris.

6 December 2007: Launch INCCA Italy

4 July 2008: INCCA presented to conservator/restorers, curators, archivists and artists in Ireland. The launch was hosted by the Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane and organised together with the ICHAWI (Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works in Ireland).

1 November 2008: Adrian Kennedy (Office of Public Works, Dublin) becomes INCCA Ireland Coordinator.

May 2009: INCCA North America becomes non-profit organisation.

October 2010: INCCA presented in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

December 2009: Launch first thematic group: INCCA Education. Launch INCCA Central and Eastern Europe.

June 2010: Launch PhD and Postdoc Network (associated network) http://www.incca.org/phdandpostdocnetwork

September 2010: INCCA North America appoints new Executive Director, Lauren Shadford.

December 2010: Launch INCCA-f. Group for French speaking INCCA members. http://www.incca.org/incca-france

December 2010: Launch INCCA Iberoamerica.