ICONOstalla brings together scholars, heritage professionals and enthusiasts through international conferences.
These meetings provide opportunities to present new research, visit important choir stall ensembles, exchange information and develop international collaborations.
Upcoming conference
Illusion and Imitation in European Choir Stalls
Fondazione MIA, Bergamo (Italy)
21-23 May 2027
Previous conferences
- 16th Colloquium – Leuven (Belgium) – 2025
Colour in the choir. Polychromy on late-Medieval and Renaissance church furniture - 15th Colloquium – Vendome (France) – 2023
Création / Re-création. La part d’héritage et de modernité dans les stalles médiévales - 14th Colloquium – Amiens (France) – 2021 (online)
Les stalles de la cathédrale d’Amiens : 500 Ans - 13th Colloquium – Rijeka (Croatia) – 2018
Patrons and Choir Stalls in the Middle Ages - 12th Colloquium – Greifswald (Germany) – 2016
Choir stalls and their workshops - 11th Colloquium – Léon (Spain) – 2014
Choir stalls in Architecture and Architecture in Choir Stalls - 10th Colloquium – Gdansk (Poland) – 2012
Creation, Recreation. Restoration and Creation of Choir Stalls in the 19th and 20th centuries - 9th Colloquium – Nijmegen (Netherlands) – 2010
Popular wisdom on medieval choir stalls - 8th Colloquium – Paris (France) – 2008
Music of Charivari in the Medieval Stalls - 7th Colloquium – Basel (Switzerland) – 2006
La Nature: rythme et danse des saisons dans les stalles médiévales - 6th Colloquium – Sheffield (United Kingdom) – 2003
Profane Images in Marginal Arts of the Middle Ages - 5th Colloquium – Angers (France) – 2002
Bible de Bois du Moyen-Âge - 4th Colloquium – Amiens (France) -1999
Autour des stalles de Picardie et Normandie – Traditions iconographiques au Moyen Âge - 3rd Colloquium – Barcelona (Spain) – 1997
- 2nd Colloquium – Cologne (Germany) – 1995
- 1st Colloquium – Paris and the Oise region (France) – 1993