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 situation of contemporary art and its institutional outlets in the region. We will also continue to commission texts that grapple with the challenges facing artists in and from the region today. 

ARTMargins Online is free. We believe, perhaps anachronistically, in the internet as a shared resource that should benefit all, regardless of their financial possibilities. Yet we also understand that in order to grow we may need to rely more on our users’ support, even as we keep access to AMO free of charge. That’s why we have decided to give our readers more opportunity to support us in different ways. 

We are starting with the relaunch of ARTMargins Online Artist Editions, a growing collection of editions specially created to benefit ARTMargins by well-known artists connected with Eastern Europe, including Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Yevgeniy Fiks, the late Svetlana Boym, and Boris Mikhailov. Please visit the Editions webpage for more information and consider purchasing one of our Artist Editions.

We have also updated our Membership Levels! If you want to support open access to thoughtful and critical writing on art in the region, please consider supporting AMO by becoming a member today. Membership gives you accesss to unique gifts, discounts on subscriptions and back issues of ARTMargins print journal, and more!

25th Anniversary Reflections

• Karolina Majewska-Güde on the roundtable “Central and East European Art and Culture, 1945-Present” (2001)
• Corina Apostol on the roundtable “Arts Publishing in Eastern Europe in Times of Crisis” (2022)
• Biljana Purić on Marina Gržinić’s interview with Maja and Reuben Fowkes (2012)
• Uroš Čvoro on Bojana Pejić’s “What Comes After the Wall?” (2003)
• Anthony Gardner on Edit András’ interview with Piotr Piotrowski (2012)
• Kristóf Nagy on Jasna Jasna Žmak’s interview with Katja Praznik (2017)

25th Anniversary Snapshot Dialogues

• Boris Kostadinov (Berlin) and Kamen Stoyanov (Vienna/Sofia)
• Jon Blackwood (Aberdeen/Sarajevo/Skopje) with Elena Chemerska (Skopje/Berlin) and Ivana Mirchevska (Skopje)
• Svitlana Biedarieva (Mexico City) and Lesia Khomenko (Kyiv)