INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON “SOCIALIST EXHIBITION CULTURES”

November 18, 2021, 8am-1.15pm*, via Zoom

Workshop Schedule

Introductory Remarks
Sven Spieker, 8am-8.15am EST

Section I: Avant-Garde—Neo-Avantgarde (Moderator: Sven Spieker)

8.15am – 8.45am EST

  • David Crowley (National College of Art and Design, Dublin), New Art in the times of the October Revolution, Warsaw, Nov-Dec 1967
  • Éva Forgács (Art Center, Pasadena), Art and Revolution. Russian-Soviet Art 1910-1932, Budapest, 1987- 1988
  • Darko Fritz (Independent Scholar), The Last New Tendencies Show, Zagreb, 1973
  • Zsuzsa László (Artpool, Budapest), st.jauby – jovanovics – lakner – miklós – pauer – tot (budapeszt), Warsaw, 1972

Q & A/ Discussion

Section II: Modernism and Socialist Modernism (Moderator: Zsuzsa László)

8.45am-9.30am EST

  • Kirill Chunikhin (HSE University, Saint Petersburg), The Picasso Exhibitions in Moscow and Leningrad, 1956
  • Daniel Véri, Two Henry Moore Exhibitions, Budapest, 1961 and 1967
  • Bojana Videkanić (University of Waterloo), The National Liberation War Exhibition, Moscow, 1958; Algiers, 1975
  • Irina Carabas (National University of Arts, Bucharest), Cold War Exhibitions in Bucharest: An Avant- Garde Affair?
  • Vladimir Kulić (Iowa State University), The Yugoslav Pavilions at the International Expositions in
    Brussels and Milan, 1958 and 1964 (video)

Q & A/ Discussion

Section III: State Sponsorship (Moderator: Bojana Videkanić)

9.30am-10.15am EST

  • Terezie Nekvindova (Academy of Fine Arts, Prague), Socialist Exhibition Design
  • Angie Baecker (The University of Hongkong), Peasant Paintings from Huhsien County of the People’s Republic of China, multiple venues, 1973-1979
  • Elvis Fuentes (Independent Scholar), Kuba o.k., Düsseldorf, April 1 – May 13, 1990; Exposición de la Plástica Cubana Actual (1976), Cali, November 6-30, 1976
  • **Tomáš Glanc (Zurich University), Tschechoslowakische Kunst der Gegenwart, Berlin, 1966; 17 tsjechische kunstenaars, Den Haag, 1967; Arte contemporanea in Cecoslovacchia, Rome, 1969; [L’art Czech Contemporain, Musée d’Art Modern de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 1970; not realized].
  • Richard Gray (SOAS, London), The Retrospective Exhibition of Malangatana Valente Ngwenya, Maputo, 1986

Q & A/ Discussion

Section IV: International Solidarity and Friendship (Moderator: Bojana Videkanić)

10.15am-11.00am EST

  • Ieva Astahovska (Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art), 20 Realists from Soviet Latvia, Düsseldorf, 1973
  • Ruth Simbao (Rhodes University, Grahamstown), On Zambian-Tanzanian-Chinese Comradeship
  • Maria Mileeva (Courtauld Institute, London), Inji Efflatoun: Exhibition of Paintings, Moscow, 1970
  • Kate Cowcher (St Andrews University, Saint Andrews), Two Retrospectives of Afewerk Tekles, Moscow, 1964; 1981
  • Douglas Gabriel (Seoul National University) / Adrienn Kacsor (Northwestern U), Korea for Freedom, Budapest, 1953

Q & A/ Discussion

Section V: Biennials and Festivals (Moderator: Polly Savage)

11.00am – 11.45am EST

  • Cristian Nae (National University of the Arts, Iasi), The International Exhibition of Fine Arts within the World Festival of Youth and Students, Bucharest, 1953
  • Matteo Bertelé (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice), The Exhibition of Socialist Countries, Moscow, 1958-59
  • **Gabriela Świtek (Warsaw University), The All-Poland Exhibition of Young Art Against War – Against Fascism, Warsaw, 1955; The International, Exhibition of Young Artists, Warsaw, 1955
  • Viktor Komorowski (Courtauld Institute, London), The 1st Tallinn Print Triennale, 1968 (video)
  • Vladimir Seput (Independent Scholar), The Yugoslav Venice Biennale Pavilions, 1950 and 1952 (video)

Q & A/ Discussion

Section VI: Realism and Abstraction (Moderator: Polly Savage)

11.45am – 12.30pm EST

  • **Dávid Fehér (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest), Ungarische Kunst der Gegenwart: Malerei, Grafik, Essen, 1968; Renato Guttuso, Budapest, 1954; 1973
  • Magdalena Moskalewicz (Art Institute, Chicago), Constructivism in Poland, 1923-1935, New York, Jan-March 1976
  • Daniel Muzyczuk (Muzeum sztuki, Łódż), Présences polonaises, Paris, 23 June – 26 September 1983
  • Ernesto Menendez (Independent Scholar), Pintura Cubana, Prague, Sofia, Budapest, Bucharest, Moscow, Warsaw, 1962

Q & A/ Discussion

Section VII: Decolonization (Moderator: Zsuzsa László)

12.30pm – 1.00pm EST

  • Romuald Tchibozo (Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Bénin), Stone Sculptures from Zimbabwe, Erfurt, 1988-1989 (in French with translation)
  • Nadine Siegert (Goethe Institute, Lagos), The Soviet Cultural Center in Lagos: Exhibitions as Socialist Cultural Diplomacy. The Role of Foreign Cultural Institutions
  • Nataša Jagdhuhn (Europäisches Kolleg, Jena), Contemporary Art of Ghana, Belgrade, 1980
  • Ernesto Menendez, Africa dentro de Cuba. 3 artistas, Kinshasa, 1987
  • Kathleen Reinhardt (Albertinum, Dresden), Intergrafik, Berlin/GDR, 1965 (video)

Q & A/Discussion

Post-Workshop Keynote/Response

1.00-1.15pm EST

Maja and Reuben Fowkes (UCL)

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Notes:

*All times on this schedule are EST (= East Coast US/Canada)

**10 minutes speaking time

Workshop and project website: https://socialistexhibitions.com

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