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Eda Čufer
Eda Čufer
# 41
Conceptual Art and Eastern Europe: Part II
Zdenka Badovinac, Eda Čufer, Cristina Freire, Boris Groys, Charles Harrison, Vít Havránek, Piotr Piotrowski, and Branka Stipančić
Continued from Conceptual Art and Eastern Europe, Part I
Zdenka Badovinac: What you’ve mentioned leads me to the question of identity versus other international questions that were being explored around 1968. How much are we forcing this Eastern European identity? This question only occurred after the Soviet regime collapsed. Before the fall of the wall, in Russia or in other Eastern and Central European countries, did artists talk about this?
Piotr Piotrowski: They did…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2013
Category
Globalization, Interviews & Conversations
Subjects
Conceptual & Post-Conceptual Art, Russia, Cold War, Eastern Europe, Minimalism & Post-Minimalism
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e-flux Announcement
Posted: December 6, 2012
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# 40
Conceptual Art and Eastern Europe: Part I
Zdenka Badovinac, Eda Čufer, Cristina Freire, Boris Groys, Charles Harrison, Vít Havránek, Piotr Piotrowski, and Branka Stipančić
While the discourse and study of conceptual art in the West is supposedly well-formed, artists in Eastern Europe have worked with a similar formal vocabulary for decades. Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana, where I am director, was the first institution in Europe to start systematically collecting works by mostly Eastern European neo-avant-garde artists since the 1990s. Since then, the collection Arteast 2000+ has steadily grown, and yet for many highly complex reasons the history of…
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 1, 2012
Category
Interviews & Conversations
Subjects
Conceptual & Post-Conceptual Art, Eastern Europe, Russia