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ARTMargins Online: Forum

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 by Octavian Esanu, Suzana Milevska, Barbora Kundračíková, Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus, Kristóf Nagy, Cristian Nae, Jonida Gashi, Denisa Tomková, Tihomir Topuzovski ·

Return to Order: Art and National Populism in Eastern Europe: A Roundtable of the Concerned (Part One)

Hosted across ARTMargins Online and ARTMargins Print Journal, this roundtable brings together art critics, cultural managers, and curators from Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, Romania, Albania, North Macedonia, and Poland to discuss the impact of populist leadership on the art and cultural lives of their respective countries.(Part 2 will be published in an upcoming issue of ARTMargins Print Journal. The uneven representation of contributors across countries is not premeditated but reflects the contingencies of the editorial process.)

National, or right-wing populism, to use the distinction made in political theory,(For a left, and right-wing populism see the writings … Read more

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: Interviews / ARTMargins Online: Special Issue

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 by Maja Fowkes, Aïda Adilbek, Aziza Kadyri, Aigerim Kapar, Anel Rakhimzhanova, Saodat Ismailova ·

Visualizing the Transformation of Nature in Central Asia: Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA) Roundtable

This roundtable brought together Aïda Adilbek, Aziza Kadyri, Aigerim Kapar, Anel Rakhimzhanova and SAVA Creative Fellow Saodat Ismailova to discuss the environmental transformation of Central Asia during the Soviet period and its contemporary ramifications through the lens of artistic, curatorial and academic research. Held at UCL on May 29, 2025, the conversation was led by Maja Fowkes, and attended by SAVA Team members Reuben Fowkes, Makar Tereshin, and Sorcha Thomson.

Maja Fowkes: I’m a Croatian-British art historian, I was born in Socialist Yugoslavia and my grandma used to make me a tea I loved, which she called Russian tea. When

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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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ARTMargins Online: Forum

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 by Biljana Purić ·

25th Anniversary Reflections: From Biopolitics to Necropolitics: A Look Back at Marina Gržinić’s Interview with Maja and Reuben Fowkes, 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

In the foreground, a palm tree made of roughly cut wood lies on snowy ground while n the background there are large text and photo panels installed on old buildings. One group of three panels shows a woman with a toy, with a caption in three languages

ARTMargins Online: Interviews

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 by Jasmina Tumbas, Corina L. Apostol, Kristaps Ancāns ·

Entangled Roots in the Mutating Nature of the New East: Kristaps Ancāns in Conversation with Corina Apostol and Jasmina Tumbas

Romanian-American-Baltic curator Corina L. Apostol and Latvian-British artist Kristaps Ancāns have recently begun a series of collaborations that focus on expanding discourses in contemporary art to include transnational perspectives centered on the New East. In December 2021, Apostol served as the curator for Ancāns’s large-scale site-specific installation what can’t we just create (2021-2022) at the Mark Rothko Art Centre in Daugavpils, Latvia. Prompted by the current invasion of Ukraine, Apostol and Ancāns revisit this installation in conversation with art historian Jasmina Tumbas, to discuss how they—as cultural workers from the region—negotiate the reconfiguration of questions of identity, nationalism, and sexuality … Read more

The artist, a black woman with very short hair, sitting at a table against a dark background. She has a box open in front of her and appears to be reading something inside the box.

ARTMargins Online: Interviews

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 by Michael Laundry, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński ·

“To Me, Everything is a Space for Encounter”: Michael Laundry in Conversation with Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński

Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is an interdisciplinary artist mainly using archival and museal material for artistic research in photography and video. Late last year, Kazeem-Kamiński received the Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz. A solo show of her work was also recently on view at Kunsthalle Wien. While in Vienna, Michael Laundry spoke with Kazeem-Kamiński about how her work creates space to think about Black feminism, representation, and post-colonial theory. In this interview, Laundry and Kazeem-Kamiński discuss the her use of slide shows, artist books, photography, and video in the dissection of the white gaze on Black … Read more