Conference program:
DAY 1
Friday, July 9, 2021
10.00 – 10.15 Introductory remarks
10.15 – 11.15 Chair: Sanja Sekelj
Konstantin Akinsha (independent researcher and curator, USA/Ukraine):
Art on the Ruins of the Empire. Ukrainian Contemporary Art during the 1990s
11.15 – 11.25 Pause
Session I 11.25 – 12.40 Chair:
Asta Vrečko
Cristina Moraru (The George Enescu National University of Arts, Iaşi):
Art Exhibitions as Instruments for Social and Political Change in
Central-East Europe in the late 1990s
Christian Nae (The George Enescu National University of Arts, Iaşi):
Critical Curating and Self-Institutionalizing Strategies: Institutional
Critique in Romanian Art during the “long 1990s”
Barbora Hájková (Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně
University, Ústí nad Labem): The establishment of the role of curator in
the Czech Republic in the 1990s
Discussion
12.40 – 13.10 Pause
Session II 13.10 – 14.05 Chair: Lea Vene Anne Pfautsch (Kingston
University, London): Othering the East: The Ostkreuz – Agency of
Photographers Miha Colner (Božidar Jakac Art Museum, Kostanjevica na
Krki, Slovenia): Narratives in Opposition. Socially Engaged Photography
as Art in Slovenia in the 1990s
Discussion
14.05 – 14.40 Pause
Session III 14.40 – 15.35 Chair:
Stevan Vuković
Stella Pelše (Institute of Art History, Latvian Academy of Art, Riga):
An Introverted “Spatial Turn” in Latvian Contemporary Art of the 1990s
Darko Šimičić (Tomislav Gotovac Institute, Zagreb): POINT BLANK. Art,
Life and Politics in the Work of Tomislav Gotovac in the 1990s
Discussion
DAY 2
Saturday, July 10, 2021
10.00 – 11.00 Chair: Sanja Sekelj
Andreas Broeckmann (Leuphana University Lüneburg / Berlin): Histories of
Media Art in Deep Europe in the 1990s
Discussion
11.00 – 11.10 Pause
Session I 11.10 – 12.25 Chair: Željko Blaće
Anya Smirnova (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London): Beyond East and
West:
The Case of “Deep Europe”
Keiko Sei (independent researcher, Bangkok/Yangon): Utopia, Open
Society
and Temporary Autonomous Zone: the Impact of Art of
Central-Eastern Europe in
the 1990s on the World
Dijana Protić (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of
Rijeka): Exploring the Influence of Media-Scape on the Croatian Media
Art Scene in the
1990s Discussion
12.25 – 12.35 Pause
Session II 12.35 – 13.50 Chair: Lujo Parežanin
Kaja Kraner (Humanistic Sciences, AMEU-ISH, Ljubljana): Tactics of
Defining: an Example of Defining Eastern Art by the Museum of Modern Art
in Slovenia
Bojan Ivanov (independent researcher, Skopje) & Jon Blackwood (Gray’s
School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen): The Short Century,
the Long Nineties and the Present: Visual Culture and the New
Contemporary in Macedonia Milena Dragićević-Šešić (UNESCO Chair in
Cultural Policy and Management
& University of Arts, Belgrade): Artistic
Counter-public and its Self-Organized Models: Stories of Dissent and
Rebellion from Serbia
Discussion
13.50 – 14.30 Pause
Session III 14.30 – 16.00 Chair: Janka Vukmir
Jadranka Vinterhalter (Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb):
Contemporary Art Documentation of the SCCA Network – Aim, Content,
Range, Present State Sandra Bradvić (University of Bern): In Transition
to a Transnational State: Curatorial Agency in Bosnia-Herzegovina based
on the Example of SCCA Sarajevo Jasna Jakšić (Museum of Contemporary
Art, Zagreb) & Tihana Puc (independent researcher, Zagreb): The
Development of the SCCA Network – Case Study Croatia
Željka Tonković (Department of Sociology, University of Zadar) & Sanja
Sekelj (Institute of Art History, Zagreb): From Cultural Narratives to
Social Structure:
A Qualitative Structural Analysis of the Soros
Network in Croatia
15.30 – 16.00 Final Discussion
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Organizers:
Institute of Art History, Zagreb
Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Scientific Committee:
Konstantin Akinsha, PhD, independent researcher and curator, USA/Ukraine
Michal Koleček, PhD, Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně
University, Ústí nad Labem
Ljiljana Kolešnik, PhD, Institute of Art History, Zagreb
Ivana Mance, PhD, Institute of Art History, Zagreb
Ksenia Nouril, The Print Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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The conference is organized within the research project “History of
Artistic Institutions in Croatia” (PU-IPU-2019-6), conducted at the
Institute of Art History in Zagreb.
The conference was originally organized in collaboration with the Museum
of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka to accompany the exhibition
90s: Scars, within the project Rijeka2020: European Capital of Culture.
For more information on the exhibition visit:
https://mmsu.hr/en/event/90s-scars-3/