Confrontations: Sessions in East European Art History
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Participants
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Corina L. Apostol听
Ieva Astahovska
Ivana Bago
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听Sandra Bradvi膰
Hana Buddeus
Juliane Debeusscher
Dessislava Dimova
Dessislava Dimova is an art historian and curator based in Brussels, Belgium and Sofia, Bulgaria. She holds an MA in Art History from the National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia and in Philosophy from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex, London. She is currently completing a research for a book 鈥 Art in Bulgaria in the 1990s, between the global and the local. At the moment she is curating a project of artistic collaborations for Bozar, Brussels (May 2019). In 2017 she initiated a project with the Centre George Pompidou, Paris for the constitution of a collection of Bulgarian art since 1960s. She is currently conducting research together with Pompidou curator Nicolas Liucci Goutnikov. An exhibition of the collection is planned for 2020.
Constanze Fritzsch
Constanze Fritzsch holds a doctorate from the Catholic University in Eichst盲tt-Ingolstadt and is a former member of the 脌 chacun son r茅el research project run by the German Forum for Art History in Paris. Currently she is completing an academic traineeship with Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden at the Kupferstich-Kabinett. She has been on the academic staff at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and worked as an academic assistant at the Institut National d鈥橦istoire de l鈥橝rt in Paris. She has curated several exhibitions in Germany, France and Croatia in a freelance capacity. She studied at the ENS de Paris as a foreign exchange student, at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena as well as at both Universit茅 Paris I and Universit茅 Paris X.
Dr听Maja Fowkes and Dr听Reuben Fowkes
head the Postsocialist Art Centre (PACT) at the Institute of Advanced Studies, 白小姐论坛 and co-direct the Getty Foundation-supported research initiative Confrontations: Sessions in East European Art History. They are founders of the , an independent research platform focussing on the art history of Central Europe and contemporary ecological practices. Recent and forthcoming publications include a co-authored book on Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950 (2019), Maja Fowkes鈥檚 The Green Bloc: Neo-Avant-Garde and Ecology under Socialism (2015) and a special issue of Third Text on Actually Existing Artworlds of Socialism (December 2018). They have recently contributed chapters to Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology (2018), Doublespeech: Hungarian Art of the 1960s and 1970s (2018) and Extending the Dialogue (2017). Their curatorial projects include the Anthropocene Experimental Reading Room, the Danube River School and they are also founding members of the Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative at Central European University Budapest.
Johana Lomov谩
Johana Lomov谩 studied art history at Charles University in Prague (MA) and got her PhD from the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague. She does research on institutional background of Czechoslovak art after the Second World War with a focus on the period from 1958 to 1974. She is interested in the relation between arts and politics and the way how contemporary social and political context shapes understanding of the past. In her recent texts she examined the role of artists麓 unions in the 1960s Czechoslovakia, censorship in journals on visual arts and debates on relation of textile design to fine arts in 1950s and 1960s.
Asja Mandi膰
Asja Mandi膰 is Associate Professor of modern and contemporary art and museum studies at the University of Sarajevo. She completed her undergraduate and graduate education in art history and museum studies in the United States of America and received PhD from University of Sarajevo (advisor Andrew McClellan, Tufts University, Medford/Boston). Until 2007 she worked as a curator of Ars Aevi Museum/Centre of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo. Over the years she curated over twenty exhibitions, including the first pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina at Venice Biennale. 听She is the author of a book Challenges of Museum Education (Bosnian language), six exhibition catalogues, co-editor of a catalogue/book Treasures of Socialism (with Michael Fehr) and Journal of Museum Education (with Patrick Roberts). Her articles were published in local and international catalogues, journals and books such as Third Text (Routledge, 2011) and book Participation in Art and Architecture (Tauris, 2006). 听She was a Fulbright scholar at Tufts University, Boston in 2005/2006.听
Pavl铆na Morganov谩
Pavl铆na Morganov谩, Ph. D. is an art historian and curator, based in Prague, Czech Republic. Works as a director of the Research Center and vice-rector at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. She is an author of the book A Walk Through Prague: Actions, Performances, Happenings 1949鈭1989 (VVP AVU 2017) and Czech Action Art / Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain (Karolinum Press 2015). She lectures on Czech Art of the 20th century, published number of texts in collected volumes, catalogues and professional journals. She has participated in several international conferences and worked as curator of exhibitions featuring Czech art of the 1990s and noughties. She is a member of the core-team of Confrontations: Sessions in East European Art History.
Magdalena Moskalewicz
is an art historian, curator, and editor who was awarded a PhD for her research into experiments with painting in Poland in the aftermath of the post-Stalinist Thaw (Adam Mickiewicz University, 2012). She also published on the Eastern European neo-avantgardes, including their connections to the global network of Fluxus, and on the international circulation of Polish modern art during the Cold War. In 2012-2015, Moskalewicz was Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral C-MAP Fellow at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she conducted research and organized academic programs for the Eastern European branch of MoMA鈥檃 global program, C-MAP. In her curatorial practice, Moskalewicz focuses on collaborating with living artists; among her exhibitions was the Polish Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Since 2016, she has taught history of modern and contemporary art as well as museum/curatorial studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Agata Pietrasik
Agata Pietrasik (b. 1985) graduated from Freie Universit盲t in Berlin (2017) with a doctoral dissertation titled 鈥淎rt in Crisis - Artistic Practice from Poland 1939-1949鈥. Currently a fellow at the German Center for Art History in Paris where she works on a research project concerning Eastern European artistic discourses and exhibitions in the 1940鈥檚 and 1950鈥檚 in relation to the Second World War. She is coeditor of 听鈥淐zas debat. Antologia krytycznych tekst贸w o sztuce z lat 1945-1959鈥欌 [Time for Debate. An Anthology of Critical Texts in Art 1945-50] devoted to Polish art criticism of the period, published by the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2016. Her research include postwar modernism in Europe and the questions of ethics in art.听
Alina 葮erban
Alina 葮erban is an art historian and editor. Her researches address the post-war Eastern European art and architecture from a transnational and transdisciplinary perspective. In 2013, she founded the independent publishing programme P+4 Publications in Bucharest (), dedicated to Romanian contemporary art and architecture. Since 2016, together with 葮tefania Ferched膬u, she develops the programme of The Institute of the Present, a research and an artist resource platform in the field of visual and performing culture in Bucharest (). She is a member of the core-team of Confrontations: Sessions in East European Art History.
Gregor Taul
Gregor Taul (b 1986) is a critic and curator based in Tallinn. He is currently a PhD student at the Lisbon Consortium working on a thesis on late Soviet monumental decorative art in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Taul studied semiotics at Tartu University (BA in 2009) and art history at the Estonian Academy of Arts (MA in 2012). Since 2010 Taul has been active as an author writing on visual art and architecture. In 2012 he co-authored a book on Estonian murals published by Lugemik (recently published in English). In 2016 Estonian National Museum published his book on the architecture of the museum鈥檚 new building. He is currently finishing his first novel, a story about a retired professor of the architecture of digital minds. Taul has worked as a gallerist at the Estonian Academy of Arts and as a curator at the Kondas Centre of Outsider Art in Viljandi. He has taught at various schools and universities in Estonia and abroad. His main academic research topic is art in public space, besides Soviet era monumental-decorative art he is interested in contemporary public art commissions, especially the so-called One Percent Act.
Daniel V茅ri
Daniel V茅ri is an art and cultural historian, head of scientific affairs at the Ferenczy Museum Center in Szentendre, Hungary. His research interests include Central European art from the 1945鈥89 period, especially the artistic reception of Jewish identity and the Holocaust, as well as the cultural history of blood libels. He holds a PhD in the history of art from E枚tv枚s Lor谩nd University (2016); his dissertation was dedicated to J谩nos Major, a major Jewish figure of the 1960s鈥70s Hungarian neo-avant-garde (See 鈥橪eading the Dead鈥 鈥 The World of J谩nos Major. Budapest: MKE, 2013). Previously, he received MA degrees in art history (ELTE, 2009) and history (Central European University, 2010). Selected publications: 鈥淗olocaust and the Arts: Paths and Crossroads鈥, in: Art in Hungary 1956鈥1980: Doublespeak and Beyond, London, Thames & Hudson, 2018; 鈥淭he Tiszaeszl谩r Blood Libel: Image and Propaganda鈥, in: Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitism in International Perspective, G枚ttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019.
Tomasz Za艂uski听
Tomasz Za艂uski is and art historian and philosopher, he works as an assistant professor at the Department of Media and Audivisual Culture at the University of Lodz. He also teaches at the Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland. His research interests include modern and contemporary art; social, political and economic contexts of artistic culture; artistic activism and self-organisation; documentation and artistic archives; relations between art, praxeology and biopolitics; configurations of aesthetics, ethics and politics in the socio-cultural project of modernity; contemporary French philosophy. He is the author of the book: Modernizm artystyczny i powt贸rzenie. Pr贸ba reinterpretacji (2008) [Artistic Modernism and Repetition. An Attempt at Reinterpretation], he co-edited (with Aleksandra Sumorok) the volume Socrealizmy i modernizacje (2017) [Social Realisms and Modernisations], and currently he is working with Daniel Muzyczuk on the book on Galeria Wschodnia (established 1984-now) in 艁贸d藕. He is also an editor of the journals: 鈥淎rt and Documentation鈥 and 鈥淗ybris. The Online Philosophical Magazine鈥. He is a member of the core-team of Confrontations: Sessions in East European Art History.
Magdalena Zi贸艂kowska
Magdalena Zi贸艂kowska lives and works in Warsaw. PhD in art history, curator, graduate of the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw, the School for Social Sciences in Warsaw, as well as the Curatorial Training Programme at de appel arts centre in Amsterdam (2006/2007). In 2013, she received her doctoral degree for a dissertation on the concept of the Museum of Current Art in Wroc艂aw by Jerzy Ludwi艅ski and Polish post-war museology. From 2006 to 2010 she was a visiting curator at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, where she curated projects: Notes From the Future of Art. Selected Writings of Jerzy Ludwin虂ski (2007), solo exhibition of Minerva Cuevas and Andrzej Wro虂blewski. To the Margin and Back (2010). She worked at Muzeum Sztuki in 艁贸d藕 from 2008 to 2014, where she organised projects including Art Always Has Its Consequences (2008鈥2010), Working title: Archive (2008鈥2009), Sanja Ivekovic虂 Practice Makes the Master (2009), Eyes Looking for a Head to Inhabit (co-curator, 2011), H眉seyin Bahri Alptekin. Incidents, Events, Circumstances, Accidents, Situations (co-curator, 2013鈥2014). Editor of anthology Teoria Sztuki Zbigniewa D艂ubaka (Warszawa 2013) and co-curator of Only to melt, trustingly, without reproach (艩kuc galerija, Ljubljana 2013鈥2014). 听Since 2012 co-founder and vice president of Andrzej Wro虂blewski Foundation. Co-curator of Andrzej Wr贸blewski. Constantly Looking Ahead (The National Museum, Krakow, 2012鈥2013) and co-author of a bilingual artist's monography Avoiding Intermediary States. Andrzej Wr贸blewski (1927鈥1957) (2014). Between 2015鈥2018 director of Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art in Krakow.