The Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art cordially invites you to the following event:
distinguished art historian Izabel Galliera presents her latest book titled Socially Engaged Art after Socialism: Art and Civil Society in Post Communist Europe.
Date: Wednesday, 4 October 2017, 6 p.m.
Venue: Ludwig Museum, Library, 2nd floor
Moderator: Miklós Erhardt
This is an English language programme.
Izabel Galliera is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Theory, and Curator of the Rice Gallery, at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. Her research has been published in the Journal of Curatorial Studies, ARTMargins, FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism, and anthologies such as Collaborative Now: Art in the Twenty First Century (2016) and Redefining Creativity: Multi-Layered Collaborations in
Art and Art Historical Practice (2017).
About the book:
The post-1989 period has seen artists in Central and Eastern Europe embrace socially engaged practices. Reclaiming public life from the ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their projects have harnessed the politically subversive potential of social relations based on trust, reciprocity and solidarity. Drawing on archival material and exclusive interviews, in this book Izabel Galliera traces the development of socially engaged art from the early 1990s to the present in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.
