‘Eastern Europe’

… 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, …

… nodes and vechicles of transfers between the art scenes of the countries of the so-called "Eastern bloc" in the 1970s. Speakers: Andrea Bátorová, Hana Buddeus, Katalin Cseh-Varga, Daniel Grúň, Beáta Hock, Mira Keratová, Lujza Kotočová, Zsuzsa László, Karolina Majewska-Güde, Pavlína Morganová, Jana Písaříková, Dagmar Svatošová For more details visit the   project's website.

… seminars 2022—2024 - call for application 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 …

… after 1960. The exhibitions were the result of a cultural exchange programme with the Eastern Bloc managed by the British Council: in exchange for hosting Moore’s show, these countries had the possibility to organise similar events in the UK. The timeline presented in the current exhibition explores such bilateral connections between the UK and the three socialist countries. Furthermore, it highlights events related to Moore that took place in the Eastern Bloc (Poland, Bulgaria) …