‘social history’

… 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 Panel 1: Revisiting socialist art: state-supported institutions, exhibitions, and cultural diplomacy Tomasz Zaluski – Introduction : In Search of New Agendas. Potential Histories of Art & Modernization Under Socialism Maja and Reuben …

… Pálinkás - Tímea Török: Those Who Carry the Hill on Their Backs . A feminist perspective on the history of the Chapel Studio in Balatonboglár 24–27 August Texts by Dóra Elekes, Eszter Kállay, Réka Mán-Várhegyi Organised by Anna Jezerniczky-Klinszki The event—which also incorporates audience participation and includes theatrical elements, stories and tales, as well as related discussions and workshop-style gatherings—will capture moments from the nearly four-year period during …

… for the following panel topics, covering the period from 1945 to 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 …

Webinar How did contemporary art and the postsocialist transition come together? How did artistic trends relate to the political-economic transformations in the Eastern Bloc? This webinar aims to answer these questions by placing Octavian Esanu’s new volume, The postsocialist contemporary, into the focus. By discussing Esanu’s account of the role of the Soros Centers for Contemporary Art, which mushroomed in the ex-socialist countries …

… to focus on the following theme: Periodicals beyond Hierarchies: Challenging Geopolitical and Social “Centres” and “Peripheries” through the Press. Date: 7–9 September 2022 Venue: Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) – Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest and online (Zoom) Conference programme and abstracts are available here. Registration for offline and online participants is open until 15 July here.  The hybrid …