ARTMargins

Contemporary art across the evolving global peripheries

Monthly Archive: December 2024

ARTMargins Online: Interviews

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 by Allan Siegel, Szabolcs KissPál ·

Snapshot Dialogue: Allan Siegel (Budapest) and Szabolcs KissPál (Budapest)

As part of its 25th Anniversary Celebrations, ARTMargins Online hosts a series of short dialogues between critics and curators from Eastern Europe and one or several artists. With these “snapshot” conversations, we want to shed light on the challenging political and economic conditions under which artists and other producers of culture in the region operate today, yet we also aim to highlight the amazing vibrancy, resilience, and resourcefulness of its art scenes.

This Snapshot Conversation, a podcast, focuses on the status of the Intermedia Program at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and the artistic practice of Szabolcs KissPál. KissPál … Read more

ARTMargins Online: Interviews

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 by Sasha Razor, Lesia Pcholka, Uladzimir Hramovich ·

Snapshot Dialogue: Sasha Razor (L.A.), Lesia Pcholka (Berlin), and Uladzimir Hramovich (Berlin)

As part of its 25th Anniversary Celebrations, ARTMargins Online hosts a series of short dialogues between critics and curators from Eastern Europe and one or several artists. With these “snapshot” conversations, we want to shed light on the challenging political and economic conditions under which artists and other producers of culture in the region operate today, yet we also aim to highlight the amazing vibrancy, resilience, and resourcefulness of its art scenes.

This conversation between Researcher of art migration from Belarus, Sasha Razor (Los Angeles) and Berlin-based Belarusian artists Lesia Pcholka and Uladzimir Hramovich focuses on the artists’ engagement with … Read more

ARTMargins Online: Articles / ARTMargins Online: Exhibition Reviews

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 by Mădălina Braşoveanu ·

On the Growing Distance Between the Two Sides of the River Elbe: Ana Lupaș Exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum and the Western Nostalgia for the Eastern Myth

In the summer of 2014, a (presumably) retrospective exhibition of the artist Ana Lupaș was organized in Cluj, in the spaces of a new building, “The Office”, destined to become a business hub. It was an exhibition behind closed doors, installed on the ground floor in rooms with glass walls that had been covered with opaque curtains. I remember how I knelt on the sidewalk by those huge windows and put my head to the ground, trying to see something from under the curtain. The exhibition had been organized for Tate London’s Acquisition Board for Eastern Europe, who were on … Read more

News

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Conclusion of the Project “Archives of the Future” at Muzeum sztuki in Łódż

Muzeum sztuki in Łódż announces the successful conclusion of its project “Archives of the Future,” which was carried out in cooperation between Muzeum sztuki; Artpool Art Research Center Budapest; the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (Budapest); and the Polish Institute in Budapest. The project started in spring 2024 with two study visits to Łódź and Budapest. The aim of the first part of the project was to become familiar with the Artpool archive, which was founded by György Galántai and Julia Klaniczay in 1979, and the Poetry Bureau, established by Andrzej Partum in
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ARTMargins Online: Forum

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 by Kristóf Nagy ·

25th Anniversary Reflections: The Paradox of Artistic Labor: An Interview with Katja Praznik, by Jasna Jasna Žmak, 2017

ARTMargins Online is celebrating 25 years! To mark the occasion, the editors invited past ARTMargins Online authors and other writers from the region to select one article from AMO’s online archive of more than 1000 texts, providing a brief introduction that highlights the chosen item’s continued relevance. ARTMargins Online published its first article on January 15, 1999. Today, the publication is one of the largest online archival resources for contemporary art from East-Central Europe and beyond. Our reflection project celebrates AMO’s 25 years, but it also aims to highlight our unwavering commitment to promoting research, criticism, and artistic projects that … Read more

ARTMargins Online: Interviews

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 by Lesia Khomenko, Svitlana Biedarieva ·

Snapshot Dialogue: Svitlana Biedarieva (Mexico City) and Lesia Khomenko (Kyiv)

As part of its 25th Anniversary Celebration, ARTMargins Online hosts a series of short dialogues between critics and curators from Eastern Europe and one or several artists. With these “snapshot” conversations, we want to shed light on the challenging political and economic conditions under which artists and other producers of culture in the region operate today, yet we also aim to highlight the amazing vibrancy, resilience, and resourcefulness of its art scenes.

In this conversation, Ukrainian critic and art historian Svitlana Biedarieva and artist Lesia Khomenko address the development of Ukrainian art after the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion of

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News

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Call for Papers: “Trading Zones: Art and Philosophy in Eastern Europe since 1945”

This  trans-disciplinary workshop (June 2025, details below) will investigate the trading zone between artistic and aesthetic practice and philosophical ideas in Central and Eastern Europe. We are interested in artists from the region who are engaged in a critical dialogue with philosophy and philosophical ideas (both from Eastern Europe and beyond), and whose work possesses transformative experiential, intellectual and political potential. We are equally interested in philosophers and theorists from the region whose thinking engages or addresses art. We view the relationship between art and philosophy as a productive form of synergy rather than as an instance of appropriation, static … Read more

ARTMargins Online: Exhibition Reviews

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 by Alexandra Timonina ·

Avant-Garde Book Revised by Emerging Artists at the 2024 Pavilion of Georgia in Venice

The Pavilion of Georgia at the 2024 Venice Biennial brought together three new commissions by Grigol Nodia, Nika Koplatadze, and the duo of Juliette George and Rodrigue de Ferluc, all placed in dialogue with the story of the long-forgotten German astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Tempel.  On view at the Palazzo Palumbo Fossati in the San Maurizio area, this exhibition of rare daintiness and wit is a collaborative project of these emerging French and Georgian artists that revisits Tempel’s 19th-century drawings alongside 65 Maximiliana ou l’exercice illégal de l’astronomie (65 Maximiliana or the Illegal Practice of Astronomy), a 1964 artist’s book by … Read more

ARTMargins Online: Forum

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 by Anthony Gardner ·

25th Anniversary Reflections: Whither the Postcommunist? Edit András and Piotr Piotrowski, “Provincializing the West,” 2012

ARTMargins Online is celebrating 25 years! To mark the occasion, the editors invited past ARTMargins Online authors and other writers from the region to select one article from AMO’s online archive of more than 1000 texts, providing a brief introduction that highlights the chosen item’s continued relevance. ARTMargins Online published its first article on January 15, 1999. Today, the publication is one of the largest online archival resources for contemporary art from East-Central Europe and beyond. Our reflection project celebrates AMO’s 25 years, but it also aims to highlight our unwavering commitment to promoting research, criticism, and artistic projects that … Read more

ARTMargins Online: Exhibition Reviews

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 by Tobias Rosen ·

Locals Nowhere: Global Histories of Labor, Art, and Migration, Summer 2024

There is no there there, Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt (MMK), April 13 – September 29, 2024

Global contemporary exhibitions have invented a new conceit: they have begun to locate migrants everywhere and nowhere. Both There is no there there at Frankfurt’s Museum of Modern Art (MMK) and the 60th Venice Biennale “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere” are evidence of this troubling development. Though this will primarily be a review of the exhibition at MMK, the Venice Biennale is a crucial point of comparison for understanding how contemporary curators are grappling with the quandaries of migration and place … Read more