Conference on the history of central european and eastern european modernism, the avant-garde, and the contemporary period
The Department of Theory and History of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and the Department of History and Theory of Art at the National Academy of Arts in Lviv warmly invite you to an art history conference taking place on May 4–6, 2026.
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Medium Gallery and Lecture Room H103, AFAD building at Hviezdoslavovo Square, Bratislava
The lectures will be held in Slovak, Ukrainian, and English.
Conference Programme
MONDAY, 4 May 2026
Medium Gallery
- 14:00 – 16:00
- Jan Kralovič: Without a cover. Book illustration as a parallel work of Slovak neo-avant-garde artists
- Beata Jablonská: Cosmos projects of Pavol Maňka (1929-2015) in the context of science fiction of socialist Czechoslovakia.
TUESDAY, 5 May 2026
AFAD H103
- 10:00 – 13:00
- Yuliya Babunych: Feminist art history: challenges, paradigms and methodology
- Barbora Komárová: Women Artists and the Neo-Avantgarde. The Example of Jana Želibská.
- Ksényia Rozhak Lytvynenko: VVadym Meller: Reformer of Ukrainian Avant-garde Theatre
- 14:00 – 16:00
- Norbert Lacko: Anna Daučíková and her Ukrainian contexts
- Marta Kravchenko: The Lviv Underground of the 1960s–1970s: Art Beyond the Boundaries of Socialist Realism
WEDNESDAY, 6 May 2026
Medium Gallery
- 10:00 – 12:00
- Uliana Shcheviova: Architecture of Lviv in the Late 19th – Early 20th Century: Stylistic and Aesthetic Aspects
- Lada Tsymbala: Traditional folk carpets (kylyms) — a source of inspiration in Ukrainian design.
The project was implemented with the financial support of the Erasmus+ programme.