Exhibitions as Spaces of Artistic Contact during the Cold War

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The current panel explores the agency of art exhibitions during the Cold War in establishing transnational collaborations across the Iron Curtain, revealing the complex interrelations between art and the social and political fields. Individual papers investigate the exhibition as a medium, as a space of cultural contact and cultural diplomacy, as a site of exchange of objects and thoughts, as a space of gathering together, and as a site of innovative curatorial formats and alternative art practices, revealing moments of conflictual, strategic or peaceful contact with state institutions and politics.

Sub Unit

• Arts: Art History, Architecture, Dance, Museum, Music, Photography, Theatre

Chair

• Kristóf Nagy, Central European U (Hungary)

Papers

• The Exhibition as an Ephemeral Site of Contact: The Collision of Conceptual Art, Performance and Sports - Katalin Cseh-Varga, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Austria) / George Enescu National U of Arts (Romania)

• Exhibitions and Cultural Diplomacy: On the Reception of American Art in Romania during 1968-1974 - Cristian Emil Nae, George Enescu National U of Arts (Romania)

• Cultural Exchanges, Alternative Narratives, Artistic Frames: The Non-Aligned Movement - Diana Maria Margarit, George Enescu National U of Arts (Romania) / Alexandra Ioan Cuza U (Romania)

Discussant

• Yelena Kalinsky, Michigan State U / H-Net