Symposium: Towards Transregional Art Histories
We would like to invite you to participate in the symposium accompanying the current exhibition Haptic Echo. Nature, Body, Politics in Art of Former Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia in Bratislava City Gallery, curated by Daniel Grúň, Darko Šimičić and Miško Šuvaković.
Where:
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AFAD
- Hviezdoslavovo nám. 18, room n. 135, Bratislava
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Bratislava City Gallery
- Pálffy's Palace, Panská 19, Bratislava
When:
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19. 2. 2025, 12:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Symposium: Towards Transregional Art Histories
The symposium consists of lectures and discussions that focus on regional art history and transregional research in the field of art of the second half of the 20th century. Organised in conjunction with Haptic Echo exhibition the focus of which are environmental motifs in the art of the 1960s to 1990s the symposium confronts the parallel, though often intertwined, narratives of art from two modern European federations - Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The symposium will address the issues of mutual contacts, friendly exchanges, leading to aesthetics of resistance and the emergence of collective artistic platforms. The ambition of the symposium is to discuss the legacy of radical artistic practices, to point out little-known contexts in the politics of multinational cultural spaces and the phenomenon of minority cultures. The symposium is open to students as well as general public and the language of discussion will be English.
Contributors:
Suzana Marjanić /HR, Klara Kemp-Welch /UK, Emese Kürti /HU, Jana Písaříková & Ondřej Chrobák /CZ, Luka Savić /SI
Program of the symposium:
12:30-13:30 Guided tour through the exhibition Haptic Echo (Bratislava City Gallery, Palffy Palace) Daniel Grúň, Miško Šuvaković, Darko Šimičić
13:30-14:00 coffee break, participants move across the couryard to the Academy of Fine Arts
14:00-14:15 Welcoming speach and introductory notes Daniel Grúň, Miško Šuvaković, Darko Šimičić
14:15-14:45 Suzana Marjanić (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb)
14:45-15:15 Emese Kürti (Central European Research Institute for Art History - KEMKI, Budapest)
15:15-15:45 Luka Savić (Academy of Visual Arts - AVA, Ljubljana)
15:45-16:00 coffee break
16:00-16:30 Jana Písaříková & Ondřej Chrobák (Moravian Gallery, Brno)
16:30-17:00 Klara Kemp-Welch (The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London)
17:00-18:00 Q&A + Round-table discussion
Admission:
free entry
Symposium partners:
Institute of Art History, Art Research Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Július Koller Society, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Vedecká grantová agentúra MŠVVaM SR a SAV (VEGA)
Curators of the exhibition Haptic Echo:
Daniel Grúň /SK, Darko Šimičić /HR, Miško Šuvaković /RS
Performative actions:
Vlado Martek /HR