Visegrad Fund
February 29, 2024

Regional Resonances: In Search of the Transnational in Central East European Art of the 1970s, another special issue is being published jointly by ArtMargins Online and Print with contributions by Hana Buddeus, Emese Kürti, Zsuzsa László, Małgorzata Miśniakewicz, Cristian Nae, and Alina Șerban. Published jointly by ARTMargins Online and ARTMargins Print Journal, this special issue explores dialogs between the artists working in different state-socialist societies of Eastern Europe beyond the state-imposed ties binding together these so-called friendly countries. The articles comprising this special issue highlight different but intersecting aspects and threads of the same intertwined web of transnational relations, friendships, exchanges, art events, and collaborations that happened within and beyond the region in the era of the Cold War. 

Image: Petr Štembera. Connection (with and Tom Marioni), 1975. Photomechanical reproduction on a card. László Beke Archive, Museum of Fine Arts-KEMKI. Image courtesy of Petr Štembera and KEMKI
January 26, 2024

We are happy to announce that the latest issue of Sešit/Notebook for Art, Theory and Related Zones, the periodical of AVU Research Centre in Prague dedicated to the Resonances project just came out! It comprises articles by Katalin Cseh-Varga, Tomasz Załuski, Gabriela Świtek, Dagmar Svatošová, and Cristian Nae, which are based on the papers presented at the Resonances conferences as well as the editorial by Pavlína Morganová, Marianna Placáková, and Martin Škabraha, which gives an overview of the whole project, and the review of Antje Kempe – Beáta Hock – Marina Dmitrieva (eds.), Universal – International – Global: Art Historiographies of Socialist Eastern Europe by Andrea Bátorová.

Link: https://vvp.avu.cz/sesit/sesit-35/

November 01, 2023

The recordings of Equal and Poor: A comparative perspective on Art in Communist Europe and the Global South in the long 1970s, the 4th conference of the Resonances series organized by Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Central European Art in Poznań are available in the center's youtube channel and here, on the Resonance website.

March 17, 2023

Check out the impressive program of the last conference of the Resonances series organized by Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research On East-Central European Art and taking place  in Poznan with Katarzyna Cytlak, Irina Genova, Cristina Freire, Daniel Grúň, Rado Ištok, Dorota Jagoda Michalska, Klara Kemp-Welch, Jarosław Kozłowski, Inga Lace, Walter Mignolo, Ksenija Orelj, Jana Písaříková, Caterina Preda, Radek Przedpełski, Magdalena Radomska, Pablo Santa Olalla, Natalia Słaboń, Gabriela Świtek, Alina Șerban, Katerina Valdivia Bruch, Rashmi Viswanathan, Karolina Wilczyńska, Darina Zavadilová.

January 09, 2023

You can watch the recordings of each lecture and discussion of the third Resonances conference, The Exhibition as Medium in the Bloc, which took place in the Academic Research Centre of the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague.

Videos can be accessed clicking on the respective line in the program.

May 26, 2022

You can watch the recordings of each lecture and discussion of the second Resonances conference, Beyond Friendships: Regional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 70s, which took place in Budapest, in Artpool Art Research Center at the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI).

Videos can be accessed clicking on the respective line in the program.

March 02, 2022

The symposium convened by Andrea Euringer Bátorová (Comenius University, Bratislava) focused on the networks, communication channels, nodes and vehicles of transfers between the art scenes of the countries of the so-called "Eastern bloc" in the 1970s took place online. The recordings of the presentations and discussions are available now.

April 13, 2022

The Resonances project is a collaborative research project running from 2021 to 2024, and runned by nine researchers and one project coordinator from four institutes. Check out who we are on the team section of our website designed by Bence Takács and developed by Dániel Varga. 

May 11, 2022

The program of the second event of our Resonances cooperation is now available. The 2-day conference will investigate the concept of cultural transfer and its relevance for the transnational art histories of Central-East Europe in the 1970s. 

The conference is dedicated to the memory and work of László Beke.