… 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 oeuvres of forced or voluntary, and temporary or permanent artistic emigration, the conference will address how networks may have centred on traditional institutions of artist education, political movements, intellectual circles or actors generated by private (family, friends) social capital. The social relations of modern …
… topics and can present arguments based of case studies or an overarching thesis: Actors and networks for transferring and trading art, such as auction houses, dealers, galleries, museums, art societies, artists’ networks or collectives, dealer and/or collector consortia, laymen; Locations and platforms for trading and transferring art, such as museums, freeports, hotels, apartments, fairs, and online platforms; State involvement in trading and transferring art, such as …
… 13.00 – Lunch break 13.00 – 15.00 Panel 2: Revisiting socialist art: artists’ networks and exhibition histories Pavlína Morganová – Introduction – The Society of Exhibition under Socialism: what we learnt and what is there to discover in exhibition histories Mădălina Brașoveanu – State-supported subversion or acts of deterritorialization? How to describe “the alternative” in the art exhibitions from the 1980s in Romania? Joanna Matuszak – …
… the present: - Revisiting socialist art: state-supported institutions, exhibitions, and global networks. - Interconnectedness and mobility: artists' networks, circulation, transference, and exchange. - Social art history in a socialist context: Marxism, anti-politics and artistic labor. - Critical art history today: race, gender and decoloniality in Eastern Europe. - Curating and other forms of collective art historical engagement. If you are interested to participate in the …
… economic, and artist transfigurations of postsocialism. The conversation around the SCCA network, or Sorosart, also leads to questions regarding the impact of the postsocialist contemporary on global art, and/or the broader institutionalization of art in the aftermath of 1989. This event – organized by the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) of the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest – is part of these institutions’ ongoing research into the art of the …