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Contemporary art across the evolving global peripheries

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ARTMargins Online: Interviews

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 by Ileana Pintilie, Dan Perjovschi ·

Drawing in Freedom: Ileana Pintilie interviews Dan Perjovschi

This interview was prompted by Dan Perjovschi’s first retrospective, which took place, fittingly, in Timișoara, Romania, September 3–October 26, 2025. Fittingly, because it was this city and the Zona, Eastern Europe festival (1993–2002) that defined an important chapter of his story. With a keen interest in the regional context and the historical and artistic qualities that bound us together across Central and Eastern Europe, I launched this performance art festival in 1993 in Timișoara, the city that marked the beginning of our liberation from dictatorship. I chose performance art because there was an urgency to express and because … Read more

ARTMargins Online: Opinions

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 by Svitlana Biedarieva ·

Epistemic Resistance: What U.S. Universities Can Learn from Ukrainian Art

Ukrainian wartime art, marked by resilience to Russia’s neocolonial violence, offers U.S. academia not only insight, but also a method of resisting violence, erasure, and authoritarianism.(All the views expressed in this article are my own.) When, in 2024, I began a series of research-led exhibitions aimed at integrating Ukrainian art practices into the global context, my primary aim was to bring Ukrainian art to U.S. universities to establish a productive interdisciplinary dialogue with academic communities and ensure Ukrainian art’s greater visibility in university-level teaching and research. I hoped to find an appropriate scholarly niche for Ukrainian art history, … Read more

A black and white photo showing the curators and artist of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennial

ARTMargins Online: Interviews

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 by Denisa Tomková, Maria Lanko ·

The Story of the Ukrainian Pavilion in Venice and Exhibition-Making as a Matter of Cultural Survival: An Interview with Maria Lanko

With the upcoming 59th International Art Exhibition in Venice on April 23, Maria Lanko, Lizaveta German, and Borys Filonenko—the curators of artist Pavlo Makov’s project Fountain of Exhaustion. Acqua Alta for the Ukrainian Pavilion—have found themselves in a difficult situation that has made it impossible for them to continue working on the exhibition. On March 8, 2022, the organizers of the pavilion announced that “despite the ongoing war, the team managed to evacuate the fragments of [Makov’s] artwork from Kyiv” and will be able to present it at the upcoming Venice Biennale.(“Ukrainian pavilion will make it to La Biennale … Read more