Monthly Archive: January 2025

Intimate Encounters: Performance Art in Zagreb

Adair Rounthwaite, This is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024), 296 pp.

The city of Zagreb occupies a special place on the map of East European performance art. The streets of that city served as the canvas for performance artists for several decades, from the walking meetings of the Gorgona Group (active 1959-1966) to the exhibition-actions of the Group of Six Authors and public interventions by Goran Trbuljak and Braco Dmitrijevic in the 1970s to iconic performances by Sanja Ivekovic (Triangle, 1979), Tomislav Gotovac and Vlasta Delimar in the … Read more

ARTMargins Online Celebrates 25 Years!

ARTMargins Online (AMO) published its first article on January 15, 1999, an interview with art critic and theorist Boris Groys by AMO founding editor Sven Spieker. Since then we’ve published nearly a thousand essays, reviews, interviews, podcasts, and critical texts exploring postwar and contemporary art from East Central Europe in a global context. 

Throughout this year, we’ll be reflecting on these 25 years by inviting our authors to delve into the AMO archive to explore perspectives that can illuminate our present, and by organizing conversations involving artists, critics, curators, and researchers from Eastern Europe and beyond to reflect on the Read more