Sympózium – V ústrety transregionálnym dejinám umenia

The symposium accompanying the exhibition Haptic Echo – Nature, Body, Politics in Art of Former Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, Bratislava City Gallery.

The symposium consists of lectures and discussions that focus on regional art history and transregional research in the field of art of the second half of the 20th century. Organised in conjunction with Haptic Echo exhibition the focus of which are environmental motifs in the art of the 1960s to 1990s the symposium confronts the parallel, though often intertwined, narratives of art from two modern European federations – Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

The symposium will address the issues of mutual contacts, friendly exchanges, leading to aesthetics of resistance and the emergence of collective artistic platforms. The ambition of the symposium is to discuss the legacy of radical artistic practices, to point out little-known contexts in the politics of multinational cultural spaces and the phenomenon of minority cultures. The symposium is open to students as well as general public and the language of discussion will be English.

Contributors:

• Suzana Marjanić /HR
• Klara Kemp-Welch /UK
• Emese Kürti /HU
• Jana Písaříková & Ondřej Chrobák /CZ
• Luka Savić /SI

Curators of the exhibition Haptic Echo:

• Daniel Grúň /SK
• Darko Šimičić /HR
• Miško Šuvaković /RS

Performative actions:

• Vlado Martek /HR

More info about the program to be found here.

Venues:

• Bratislava City Gallery, Pálffy Palace, 2nd and 3rd floor
• Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Hviezdoslavovo nám. 18, 1st floor

Symposium partners:
Institute of Art History, Art Research Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Július Koller Society, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Vedecká grantová agentúra MŠVVaM SR a SAV (VEGA), Czech Center Bratislava