ARTMargins promotes cross-national dialogue about contemporary art in Central and Eastern Europe. Based in Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, Berlin, and Los Angeles, and served by an editorial board with members from all over the region, ARTMargins solicits essays, reviews and interviews that reflect critically not only on contemporary art but - more generally - on the ongoing processes of social and cultural differentiation that are afoot in Eastern Europe today.

Since its foundation ARTMargins has evolved into the leading English-language publication devoted to contemporary art in Eastern and Central Europe. ARTMargins integrates a regular online magazine format with social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. Following a complete overhaul of its website in 2008, ARTMargins has begun to use podcasts and video links as a means of quickly delivering information about important exhibitions, cultural events, and art-related initiatives to its readers.

While ARTMargins is not a local publication, it is nevertheless based in local art institutions and generates a substantial part of its content from within regional centers. ARTMargins was started in 1999 as a way of responding to the rapidly shifting social, political, and cultural conditions of the region and the artistic ferment that had either been ignored or hidden from public view. At the time, the project’s goal was broadly speaking emancipatory - to give a higher degree of visibility to the “marginal” art scenes of those countries which had been part of the Eastern Bloc. Since then, the inclusion of many of these countries into the European Union and the emergence of a globalized sphere of cultural activity have attenuated, if not eliminated, their political and cultural isolation. However, art production in Eastern Europe continues to be affected in a variety of ways by the institutional legacies of the cold war, by the neo-liberal policies of more recent times, and by the region’s continuing isolation from the major art institutions of Western Europe, North America, and Asia.

ARTMargins is ISSN-registered. Editorial decisions are made by the editor-in-chief together with a team of contributing editors. Submitted articles may be sent out to external reviewers for evaluation ("peer-review"). ARTMargins publishes three issues a year (February 1; June 1; October 1). However, exhibition reviews and select other content is published on a continuous basis throughout the year.

For information on how to submit a manuscript for publication, please see the Submission Guidelines.