‘avant-garde’

… of its market transformation? Was it the decade of death or the institutionalization of the avant-garde? Was it the heyday of the underground or painting? The 1980s are both far away and close to us: fewer and fewer key players are active, but despite the emerging research efforts on the art of the decade, we still do not have a clear understanding of it. This talk series aims to bring us one step closer to understanding the dynamics of the decade's cultural changes. The series is …

We are happy to announce that the latest issue of Sešit/Notebook for Art, Theory and Related Zones, the periodical of AVU Research Centre in Prague dedicated to the Resonances project just came out! It comprises articles by Katalin Cseh-Varga, Tomasz Załuski, Gabriela Świtek, Dagmar Svatošová, and Cristian Nae, which are based on the papers presented at the Resonances conferences as …

Conversation with art historian Éva Forgács Éva Forgács is an art historian, avant-garde researcher, and senior fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Kunstuniversität Linz/Wien (IFK). Her book, published last year (2022), Malevich and Interwar Modernism: Russian Art and the International of the Square, opens up a new perspective in the research of avant-garde art by using previously unused sources.   Forgács explores the …

International Conference Organized by: ICMA – The Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in the Arts, UNAGE, Iasi, Romania. In collaboration with: Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, KEMKI-Central European Research Institute for Art History, Budapest and the University of Lodz. CONFERENCE PROGRAM Thursday, October 12 9.45 – 10.00 – Introduction 10.00 – 12.00 …

Resonances IV. conference Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research On East-Central European Art in Poznań organizes the forth event of the Resonances project. KEMKI's research project consists of four conferences and is realized in partnership with the Department of Art History at Comenius University in Bratislava, the Research Institute of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and the Piotr …