‘Cold War’

… after 1945. Led by Dr. Beáta Hock, “ Linking Art Worlds: American Art and Eastern Europe in the Cold War to the Present ” re-examines national art histories from a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective, also implicating socio-historical and political factors underpinning artistic practice. The project takes the form of five extended meetings of seminars, lectures, site visits and writing workshops. The seminars will be held in Prague, Budapest (Central European Research Institute …

… the modern age (technological progress, standardization, etc.), and, on the other, a critique of cold, alienating functionalization. For the Hungarian film theorist Béla Balázs, who lived in Berlin between 1926 and 1931, the dispossessed human being had become a mechanized part of a system hostile to life. In a society increasingly under the sway of the capitalist imperative of rationalization, the transformation of man into a passive thing, his reification, became an essential feature of …

Online book launch of KEMKI Artpool Art Research Center Time: February 11, 17:00-18:30 Venue: online  Registration Ieva Astahovska, art scholar, critic and curator (Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia) Christian Nae, art historian and curator (George Enescu National University of Arts, Iași, Romania) After the invited contributors share their review of the book, a …

… events, such as the Nuremberg trials, the Auschwitz trials, the Eichmann trial, and the Six-Day War had on shaping the memory of the Holocaust in the domain of fine arts and also to explore the impact of similar, local events. Another important point of focus is the role of national and transnational organisations, state authorities and unions of former prisoners, especially in the case of antifascist memory politics, as well as local Jewish communities and various Zionist organizations, …

The conference examines the memory of the Holocaust in fine arts within the Eastern Bloc from 1945 until the end of the 1960s.  Organised by KEMKI’s Research Department (Daniel Véri) and Freie Universität Berlin’s Kunsthistorisches Institut (Agata Pietrasik). Supported by the Alfred Landecker Foundation. The conference is our second international event dedicated to the subject, …