Artelogie: Violencia(s), frontera(s) y sentimiento(s): formas, sentidos y significados de la violencia en nuestra América (22/2024) – Introduction
We are presenting texts published in “Artelogie” – Numéro double spécial 22 (2024): Violencia(s), frontera(s) y sentimiento(s): formas, sentidos y significados de la violencia en nuestra América. You can access all the issue here Authors: Agata Jakubowska, Andrea Giunta From the Introduction: This volume presents seven articles prepared in...
Feminist Museology Applied to the Leipzig Museum of Arts (The MdbK)
We are continuing to present texts published in FEMINIST ART HISTORIOGRAPHIES IN EASTERN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA issue of “Ikonotheka” 33 (2024). Authors: Marina Vinnik Abstract: In this article, I explore how museums navigate the contradictions between contemporary discourses and the presence of colonial European art. Museums as sites...
“Ikonotheka” 33 (2024) – Introduction
We are beginning to present texts published in FEMINIST ART HISTORIOGRAPHIES IN EASTERN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA issue of “Ikonotheka” 33 (2024). You can access all the issue here Authors: Agata Jakubowska, Andrea Giunta From the Introduction: Previous years saw an increased number of projects that offered a comparison...
“The cognate ideas appeared simultaneously in different environments, and we cannot always speak of one-way influences”: An Interview with Stanislava Barać
Author: Petra Šarin In August 2023 I talked to Stanislava Barać, PhD, from the Institute for Literature and Arts in Belgrade about early feminist ideas, feminist (art) histories and epistemologies, as well as literature and art practice in Serbia (and Yugoslavia) from 19th century onwards, in order to shed...
Anni Albers’ Theorisation of Textiles: Interwoven Narratives of the 20th Century Art
Author: Marina Vinnik The life and work of Anni Albers (1899 – 1994), born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann, embodies many key narratives of the 20th century and provides truly fascinating research material. Born to a Jewish family in Berlin Charlottenburg, she found a productive artistic path and survived...
A discreet disagreement with the concept of motherhood
Author: Eda Tuulberg The following post[1] is a brief analysis of Estonian artist Silvi Liiva’s[2] 1977 etching Põld-Põlluke [Field, Little Field] which I saw during one studio visit. In many ways, this is an exceptional work in the context of the representation of motherhood in late Soviet Estonian...
Common Ground: What Connects CEE and LA Art. Previous Narratives and Possible New Approaches (from a Feminist Perspective)
Author: Wiktoria Szczupacka This blog post departs from the initial concept of the Narrating Art and Feminism seminar, which is based on bringing together two regions, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Latin America (LA). Such a connection, deriving from the protest against the hegemony of Western art history...
Intimate stories in reconfiguring the logic of narratives
My blogpost will introduce three artworks from contemporary women artists from the region of Eastern and Central Europe, whose art touches upon the questions of personal memory, family archives, and microhistories.[1] Rasa Jansone’s (Latvia, b. 1973) installation “Lost Treasures” from 2008 makes everyday moments “shine” in a new way;...
(Book Review) Working with Feminism: Curating and Exhibitions in Eastern Europe
Although published in 2012, the questions and problems relating to feminist curating in Eastern Europe that the book Working with Feminism: Curating and Exhibitions in Eastern Europe brings forward, are still relevant. The book compiles articles based on an international symposium titled Common Differences: Issues for Feminist Curating in...
