TIME CHANGE!
Due to the London flight's delayed departure, the lecture starts at 6 PM.
OKWUI ENWEZOR will be lecturing at the last event of the series at Ludwig Museum on 19th
February, 2013, at 6 PM.
More than 20 years after the political transformation and the end of the Cold War, in the age of an increasingly globalized world, can we still talk about margins? Is the art of East-Central Europe in a marginal situation?
In the framework of the Budapest Ludwig lecture series, we would like to cast a new light on the relationship of East and West, the questions of centers and margins in art, with the help of the world’s leading art theorists.
Since the Berlin wall dividing East and West crashed down, in the past two decades, more and more gigantic mega-exhibitions, biennales, triennales have been held in Europe, Asia and even in South-America. There is an increased interest in the avant-garde, neo-avantgarde art of the former socialist countries, and also in the art of the Southern areas, the Balkans and the former colonial territories. But is there an art theory that truly takes the art history of these areas into account, and if yes, how? And does the new globalized art world affect art products?
Okwui Enwezor is a theoretician, art historian, critic, curator and the director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich. He was the art director of Documenta 11, Kassel in 2002, he has curated numerous international exhibitions, e.g. the Second Johannesburg Biennale in 1997, the Seventh Gwangju Biennale of South-Korea, and he organized the exhibition of the International Center of Photography, New York, entitled Archive Fever. Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art. Moreover, he has arranged exhibitions in the New York P.S.1, Guggenheim Museum as well as the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a professor at the San Francisco Art Institute, the University of Pittsburgh, Columbia University, amongst other institutions. In his work he focuses on African art and the questions of marginality.
Language: English
The series is supported by the Open Society Institute.
