The Ludwig Museum proudly presents and cordially invites you to the Expert Conference dealing with the theme of transition in post socialist societies and is directly connected to the arts and the exhibition Transition and Transition. osip Vaništa, Oleg Kulik and the Blue Noses .
The participants of the conference will be the following:
Robert Parnica, Senior Reference Archivist at the Open Society Archives, Central European University
Petar Ćuković, Montenegrin art critic and university professor, the curator of the ‘Transition and Transition’exhibition
Oleg Kulik, Russian artist presented at the ‘Transition and Transition’ exhibition
Alexander Shaburov and Vyacheslav Mizin, members of the Russian art group Blue Noses, also presented on this exhibition
Ješa Denegri, one of the most renowned art critics and theoreticians of art, in Serbia and the wider region
Feđa Vukić, renowned art historian, writer and university professor
A short introductory speech will be held by Julia Fabényi, Director of the Ludwig Museum.
The conference will be held in Russian, Serbian and Croatia with Hungarian translators.
The experts’ conference held by the mentioned art critics, renowned professors and artists will deal not just with the artistic exploration of the process of transition but will also approach this theme more broadly. What the exhibition explores and what the conference will concentrate around is trying to understand the time, symbolically marked by the fall of the Berlin wall and what is it that exactly started with post socialism, a time whose very beginning is deeply paradoxically as it is defined by an ending. The present is anxiously lingering between an ending of one era, that it wants to have no connection with, and dreaming about a prolific future that it over and over again fails to reach. The expression “transition” alone, i.e. something indicating a crossing from one state to another, expressing without a doubt some kind of truth about the state of a society at question, at the same time threatens to turn into a kind of “lid” term used for a wide range of instances and situations occurring within a society.
To find out more about the exhibition click HERE.
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Transition and Transition. Josip Vaništa, Oleg Kulik, Blue Noses 7. February, 2014 – 9. March
The Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition titled Transition and Transition under the curatorship of the Montenegrin art historian and critic Petar Ćuković.
