Representations of the Holocaust in the Cold War Eastern Bloc: the Early Decades – conference, Berlin, Freie Universität, June 5–6, 2023
Representations of the Holocaust in the Cold War Eastern Bloc: the Early Decades – conference, Berlin, Freie Universität, June 5–6, 2023
… and Beyond (Thames & Hudson, London, 2018), Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary (Getty Publications, Los Angeles, 2018), Abstract Hungary (Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2019) and Dóra Maurer (Tate Publishing, London, 2019). His major curatorial projects include Imre Bak’s exhibition Timely Timelessnes: Layers of an Oeuvre / 1967–2015 (Paks Gallery, 2016), Bacon, Freud and the Painting of the School of London, a joint exhibition with Tate in Budapest …
… official/non-official which have been responsible for reductive historicizations of CEE art of the Cold War era. Going beyond mere comparisons that suppose the possibility of a neutral or external point of view, our project endeavors to create a new perception of regional histories based on transnational cultural transfers. Each chapter of the conference series approaches cultural transfer from a different angle. Starting in Bratislava from the critical evaluation of networks and …