‘Eastern Europe’

… come together? How did artistic trends relate to the political-economic transformations in the Eastern Bloc? This webinar aims to answer these questions by placing Octavian Esanu’s new volume, The postsocialist contemporary, into the focus. By discussing Esanu’s account of the role of the Soros Centers for Contemporary Art, which mushroomed in the ex-socialist countries throughout the 1990s, the webinar offers not only a historical but also a critical angle to the ideological, economic, …

… Art Worlds travelling seminar in KEMKI The Leibniz-Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), with joint support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Getty Foundation through its Connecting Art Histories initiative, is launching a new series of traveling research seminars to explore relationships between the U.S. and East-Central European art scenes after 1945. Led by Dr. Beáta Hock, “ Linking Art Worlds: American Art and Eastern Europe in the Cold …

… at the University at Buffalo’s Arts Management Program, opens up a new perspective on the study of Eastern European art in the 1980s. Praznik argues that it is through understanding creative art as labour that we can understand how some alternative artists of the 1980s were suppressed and others assimilated by the late socialist Yugoslav regime. Katja Praznik’s presentation is closely related to the ongoing research into 1980s art at KEMKI’s Research Department, and we hope it will …

… international project examines artistic relations and collaborations in the Central and Eastern European region during the Cold War era. In connection with the conference Beyond Friendships: Regional Cultural Transfer in The Art of the 1970s , we present a selection from Artpool’s collection entitled Language Games. The display contains works and documents of  cross-border collaboration by Karel Adamus, Gábor Attalai, László Beke, Attila Csernik, Robert Cyprich, Tibor …

… the project's website. The two-day conference convened by Zsuzsa László and Emese Kürti (Central European Research Institute for Art History - Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest) will investigate the concept of cultural transfer and its relevance to the transnational art histories of Central-East Europe in the 1970s. The program is composed of the following five sections: Theories of Translation and Transfer; Interpersonal Friendships and Dialogues; Hubs of Transfer; Agents, Vectors, …