… 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 contradictions of avant-garde art between the two world wars: the problem of the artistic program that drew simultaneously on tradition and the scientific and industrial innovations of modernity, and …
… for the relocation of Central and Eastern European visual artists to urban centres in the interwar period often followed patterns: those with formal art training included travel as part of their curriculum, financed by various funds or grants; changes in political regimes forced others to leave their home countries for shorter or longer periods; and most enjoyed the help of personal, professional or political networks while abroad. In addition to analysing individual cases and …
… the relocation of Central and Eastern European visual artists to urban centres specifically in the interwar period. These often followed patterns: artists with formal art training included travel as part of their curriculum, financed by various funds or grants; changes in political regimes forced others to leave their home countries for shorter or longer periods; and most enjoyed the help of personal, professional or political networks while abroad. In addition to analysing individual …
… this lecture seeks to shed light on the ambiguities of this new cold order, which, in the interwar years, particularly conditioned life in German metropolises. As Robert Musil summed up in 1930 in his great novel Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man Without Qualities), “One has gained reality and lost dreams.” Angela Lampe began her career at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany after a PhD in art history at the Sorbonne University Paris. Since 2005 she is a curator of the …
The recordings of the international conference, held in 2024 in connection with the „Organising the Spectacle” Research on the Avant-garde organized by the Research Department, are now available on the conference website and on the KEMKI Youtube channel . Feel free to explore!