Who We Are

 

 

Klima Conservation is a private practice conservation studio located in West New York, NJ in close vicinity to New York City galleries and museums, specializing in the treatment and examination of modern and contemporary paintings, sculptures, objects and mixed media artworks.

 

We offer wide variety of art conservation and restoration services including technical research, collaboration with artists and scientists, in-studio and on-site treatment, examination, preventive care, collection maintenance, condition reports.

 

Our professional team of highly skilled and experienced art conservators has repeatedly demonstrated success in solving complicated conservation tasks. We incorporate collaborative approach to meet important deadlines. The team give strong emphasis on choosing suitable treatment according to aesthetic aspects of artwork and the original artist’s intention. We combine traditional established methods with cutting-edge technology and techniques to work on contemporary materials. Our practice follow guidelines of the American Institute of Conservation (AIC) to maintain contact with recent conservation research and act in compliance with the code of ethics.

 

Klima Conservation is located in West New York, New Jersey across the Hudson River from Manhattan, easily accessible via Lincoln Tunnel. Our studio space is designed to meet the highest standards for various art conservation treatments, including lining, varnishing, photography. Natural northern light give ideal conditions for appropriate finishing treatments such as inpainting.

We are able to accommodate large scale paintings and objects. The central air/heat and humidification control create stable environment for the stored artworks. The studio is equipped with alarm system and cameras for enhanced security.

 

We provide services for galleries, auction houses, private collectors, art fairs, museums and other institutions within USA as well as internationally.

 

 

 

Tomas Klima

Senior Conservator / Partner

 

Tomas co-founded Klima Conservation in 2018 after gaining extensive experience in private practices in Italy, Germany, Austria and UK. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and Newcastle University, UK and holds an MA degree. Shortly after graduation in 2014 Tomas moved to New York City, where he began working with leading art galleries and private collectors. He is highly experienced in the treatment of artworks by David Hammons, Frank Stella, Richard Hamilton, Helen Frankenthaler.

 

Tomas specializes in the conservation of modern and contemporary paintings and artworks composed of non-traditional materials. The base of his expertise consists of structural treatments and preventive conservation. During his career Tomas worked on diverse modern paint surfaces including the most challenging minimalist art. He is particularly interested in the contemporary methods of cleaning paintings. Further expanding his expertise Tomas also focus on the conservation treatment of non-traditional and innovative materials used by artists in three dimensional artworks. These include various types of plastic, foam, carbon fibre, resins.

 

 

 

Katarina Draxler

Senior Conservator / Partner

 

Katarina began her studies at specialized fine art school in Kosice, Slovakia, where she received her diploma in Conservation and Restoration of paintings and polychromed sculptures. She continued her education at Comenius University in Bratislava where she studied Classical Philology and later Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at University of Bologna, Italy, where she received her MA in 2014. Living in Central Europe - Slovakia and Italy, she gained extensive experience by working at private conservation studios focused on 18th and 19th century paintings. Katarina’s main focus shifted to conservation of modern and contemporary artworks and she moved permanently to New York City where she continued gaining experience at Luca Bonetti studio.

 

Katarina specializes in the conservation of modern and contemporary paintings on canvas and panels as well as objects and sculptures with painted surface. Her main focus is on the treatment of abstract Color Field paintings characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color. Katarina has built her expertise in the artworks of Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Friedel Dzubas, Robert Motherwell, Lynne Mapp Drexler. She had worked intensively on the treatment of painted steel / aluminum surfaces of sculptures and objects by Frank Stella, Alexander Calder, Sol LeWitt. Throughout her career she has demonstrated exceptional skills in the inpainting and airbrushing of unbroken paint surfaces.