‘the 80s’

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 …

Lecture of Katja Praznik, Slovenian cultural researcher The recently published volume Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021) by Katja Praznik, a Slovenian cultural researcher at the University at Buffalo’s Arts Management Program, opens up a new perspective on the study of Eastern European art in the 1980s. Praznik argues that it is through understanding creative art as labour …

Conference about the art of Hungary in the 1980s, organized by KEMKI Research Department The Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) is organising a conference on the art of Hungary in the 1980s. The goal of the event is to initiate collective professional discourse on the art of the 1980s and to identify the most important but under-researched areas and topics related to the period’s …