ARTMargins Online publishes and distributes material that critically reflects on Eastern European contemporary art production and curatorship. Mindful of the different geo-political realities that characterize the region and of the global economic forces that drive its development, ARTMargins invites artists, art theorists, art historians, and curators to reflect on Eastern Europe within what editor Sven Spieker has called the “thickened global margin.”

 

ARTMargins Online supplements the print version of ARTMargins (MIT Press, Spring 2012), but it operates independently from it.

 

ARTMargins Online was started in 1999 as a way of responding to the rapidly shifting social, political, and cultural conditions of the region and the artistic ferment that had either been ignored or hidden from public view. At the time, the project’s goal was broadly speaking emancipatory - to give a higher degree of visibility to the “marginal” art scenes of those countries which had been part of the Eastern Bloc. Since then, the inclusion of many of these countries into the European Union and the emergence of a globalized sphere of cultural activity have attenuated, if not eliminated, their political and cultural isolation. However, art production in Eastern Europe continues to be affected in a variety of ways by the institutional legacies of the cold war, by the neo-liberal policies of more recent times, and by the region’s continuing isolation from the major art institutions of Western Europe, North America, and Asia.

ARTMargins Online is ISSN-registered. Editorial decisions are made by the editor-in-chief together with a team of contributing editors. Submitted articles may be sent out to external reviewers for evaluation.

 

For information on how to submit a manuscript for publication, please see the Submission Guidelines.