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A lecture by Joseph Grim Feinberg (Czech Academy of Sciences; Senior Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, CEU) within the framework of KEMKI’s research project on the art of the 1980s. National frameworks and containers are often too narrow to fully grasp the complexities of social, historical, and artistic development. What, then, should replace methodological …

… for its existence. Based on the artworks in the exhibition and its two-part structure, 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 …

… Exhibition I. 17.00–17.30  Discussion Coffee break 17.30–18.00 18.00–19.00 Keynote lecture Éva Forgács, Adjunct Professor, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Professor emerita, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest: Challenging National Art Histories Friday, 11 October Keynote 10:00–11:00   Angela Lampe,  Senior curator, Modern Art Collections, MNAM–Centre Pompidou: A review of the exhibition “Germany/1920s/New Objectivity/August …

… and networks and lay behind the commercial and non-commercial circulation of artworks. Keynote lectures will be held by Ana Magalhães (São Paulo) and Nathalie Heinich (Paris). The list of presenters also includes researchers from KEMKI. Although art market studies as an academic field has become increasingly popular in the last decade, there has been little research that critically examines the actors, places, rules, and structures of this system. This workshop, facilitated by Gregor …

Lecture on Josef and Anni Albers by Nicholas Fox Weber, cultural historian, Bauhaus scholar and Executive Director of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Josef Albers, one of the most prominent representatives of geometric abstraction and one of the leading colour theorists, began his career as a teacher at the Bauhaus. After the school closed in 1933, he and his wife Anni Albers, a textile …