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• Boris Groys: The Logic of Collecting

  Interviews

  Created: Friday, 15 January 1999 11:53 Author: Sven Spieker (Los Angeles)

  S. S.: In your reviews and critical essays, the mechanisms of art collection and their respective institutions, such as the museum and the archive, play a central role. In this conversation, I would like to focus on these concepts, but also on the related...

• The Metropolitan Museum of Cherkashin (Online Gallery)

  Artists

  Created: Wednesday, 20 January 1999 12:40 Author: Administrator

  Valery and Natasha Cherkashin have been working with the imperial cultures of the USSR, Germany, the United States and Great Britain for more than 15 years. In 1992, the Cherkashins developed a conceptual art museum, the "Metropolitan Museum of Cherk...

• The Art of Tamás Waliczky

  Articles

  Created: Wednesday, 20 January 1999 14:40 Author: Lev Manovich (San Diego)

  Tamás Waliczky is among the few artists who have been working with and thinking about the computer for many years, long before it became fashionable, and this depth of involvement can be clearly seen in his works....

• Two Recent Hungarian Films

  Film & Screen Media

  Created: Wednesday, 27 January 1999 21:39 Author: Noelle Dupuy (Paris)

  Tükrözõdések is an ambitious and complex experimental film by Istvan Darday and Gyorgyi Szalai. A dense pictorial compilation of the oblique memories and imageries from a dying scientist's (Teo Fabricius) life. ...

• Behind the Screen: the New Russian Media

  Articles

  Created: Wednesday, 03 February 1999 15:58 Author: Lev Manovich (San Diego)

  Should we be surprised that as the new computer-based media expand throughout the world, intellectual horizons and aesthetic possibilities seem to be narrowing? If one scans Internet-based discussion groups and journals from London to Budapest, New York t...

• Idea Against Materia: On the Consumption of Post-Soviet Art

  Articles

  Created: Friday, 05 February 1999 15:04 Author: Alla Efimova (Berkeley, CA)

  No matter how much it wanted to escape into the sanctuary of beauty, art had to serve in the war between communism and capitalism. Both in the former Soviet Union and in the West, the rhetoric of art criticism was laced with ideological animosity....

• The Quest for Freedom. Moscow Artists of the 1950's - 1970's.

  Exhibition Reviews

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 1999 20:55 Author: Stephan Küpper (Berlin)

  During the years following Stalin's death, freedom in the Soviet Union first of all meant personal and political freedom. Artistic freedom from the norms of Socialist Realism, however, was more than a side issue, as many artists were to find out in 1974, ...

• Dmitry Prigov: Pulsierendes Schwarz

  Articles

  Created: Monday, 01 March 1999 20:52 Author: Stephan Küpper (Berlin)

  Dmitry Prigov is one Moscow Conceptualist artist who has succeeded in creating an artistic universe of his own, or rather, an artistic all-encompassing mythology. His output alone is monstrous: He has already completed 20,000 poems and is planning to reac...

• Haralampi Oroschakoff (Online Gallery)

  Artists

  Created: Sunday, 07 March 1999 11:08 Author: Administrator

  The paintings shown in this issue of ARTISTVIEW were to be seen in the solo exhibition "Etre la au bord du Monde: Voyageurs et Orientalistes, 1988 -1999" at the Musee d'Art moderne et contemporain in Geneva/Switzerland in 1999. The were subseque...

• Mixed Review: Dmitri Prigov, 'Bridge'

  Exhibition Reviews

  Created: Saturday, 27 March 1999 20:29 Author: Stephan Küpper (Berlin)

  This open-air gallery at the site of the former home of German artist Kaethe Kollwitz regularly shows new works by various artists. It is a dynamic medium commemorating Kaethe Kollwitz's deep social and human concern that made her one of Germany's foremos...

• Ilya Kabakov and the Corridor of Two Banalities

  Interviews

  Created: Saturday, 27 March 1999 20:43 Author: Pawel Polit (Warsaw)

  Ilya Kabakov: Concerning the residents of communal apartments, the personages and documents in the installation "The Corridor of Two Banalities"... The documents in the installation are absolutely authentic....

• Poetry as Nakedness

  Articles

  Created: Saturday, 27 March 1999 20:46 Author: Heike Wegner (Vienna)

  The first International "Festival of Naked Poetry" took place in August last year at the London Institute of Contemporary Art. What is behind this project with its (seemingly) metaphorical title? Is poetry nakedness? Or, can nakedness be poetica...

• The Thing from Inner Space

  Articles

  Created: Thursday, 01 April 1999 11:12 Author: Slavoj Žižek (Ljubljana)

  Jacques Lacan defines art itself with regard to the Thing: in his Seminar on the Ethics of Psychoanalysis, he claims that art as such is always organized around the central Void of the impossible-real Thing - a statement which, perhaps, should be read as ...

• This is Not a Book: Komar and Melamid's 'Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art'

  Book Reviews

  Created: Saturday, 03 April 1999 19:03 Author: Svetlana Boym (Cambridge, MA)

  There should be a warning on the cover of Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid's Painting by Numbers: The Scientific Guide to Art: "This is not a book." From the opening page, offering "America's Most Wanted" painting ("dishwasher-size," as preferred by 67%...

• Beata Wehr (Online Gallery)

  Artists

  Created: Monday, 12 April 1999 12:19 Author: Administrator

  In my mixed media books I focus on issues related to my experience as a Pole living in the U.S. I came here 13 years ago with no intention to stay, but I am still here. Since my connection with Poland is very strong, I feel I am in between the two culture...

• Ilya Kabakov: Drawings

  Exhibition Reviews

  Created: Monday, 12 April 1999 19:54 Author: Stephan Küpper (Berlin)

  This is not an ordinary Kabakov exhibition. Since his emigration from Russia in 1988, Ilya Kabakov has been known mainly for his "total" installations, in which he creates little parallel universes that possess their own artistic logic, or rather, stage t...

• 'Cryptogram' and 'Demedusator': Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák

  Articles

  Created: Friday, 16 April 1999 14:27 Author: Agnes Veronika Kovács (Budapest)

  In Hungary, there are more and more visual artists dealing with the new media, even though there are not many institutions where they could either educate themselves or present their media art work. ...

• 'Image Engine': Róza El-Hassan's Latest

  Articles

  Created: Wednesday, 12 May 1999 18:48 Author: Agnes Veronika Kovács (Budapest)

  Róza El-Hassan is one of the great hopes among the younger generation of Hungarian artists. Since 1990 she has continuously participated in international exhibitions. ...

• Russian Architecture: Between Anorexia and Bulimia

  Articles

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 1999 11:59 Author: Vladimir Paperny (Los Angeles/Moscow)

  The Russian visual sensibilities (if there is such a thing) are formed by two contrasting influences. On the one hand, there is a natural attraction to decorative surfaces, to richness of colors and shapes. ...

• Karl Gernot Kuehn: 'Caught. The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republic'

  Book Reviews

  Created: Wednesday, 19 May 1999 18:34 Author: Judith Schwentner (Graz, Austria)

  The title of this extensive documentation of 45 years of GDR-photography by Karl Gernot Kuehn (Caught) already refers to the two principal intentions of this book: to present a detailed analysis of how political pressure and constraint shaped photography ...

• 'Socialist Realist Painting': Matthew Cullerne Bown

  Book Reviews

  Created: Wednesday, 19 May 1999 18:42 Author: Mark Konecny (Los Angeles)

  The art of soviet socialist realism like that of Fascist Germany, has been inextricably linked to to ideological (totalitarian), rather than aesthetic, considerations by scholars and critics....

• Technology and Representation at the End of the 90s: Fragments of the Russian Experience

  Articles

  Created: Saturday, 26 June 1999 18:12 Author: Olesya Turkina and Viktor Mazin (St. Petersburg)

  It is possible to consider technology as a complex combination of technical means and logical representations. When it forms part of technology (in the broad sense of that word, encompassing mnemotechnics as well as space ships), logic (or rather ideo-log...

• Conversation with Pawel Pepperstein at the Studio of Sergei Bugaev (Afrika)

  Interviews

  Created: Saturday, 26 June 1999 20:25 Author: Heike Wegner (Vienna)

  Heike Wegner: Missing an adequate language of my own, I started to collect statements by others about Afrika, so that I might be able to write about him. If you were asked what is important to you about Afrika, what would you say?...

• Between Hope and Fear: Ilya Kabakov: The Sixties - the Seventies... Notes on Inofficial Life in Moscow

  Book Reviews

  Created: Friday, 06 August 1999 17:52 Author: Stephan Küpper (Berlin)

  In the early eighties, with the endless period of stagnation under Brezhnev drawing to an end, conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov wants to come clean with his past. ...

• From Internet to InteLnet: Electronic Media and Intellectual Creativity - An Interview with Mikhail Epshtein

  Interviews

  Created: Tuesday, 17 August 1999 16:34 Author: Evgeny Shklovsky (Moscow)

  Evgeny Shklovsky: How did you come to create "InteLnet" and The Book of Books?Mikhail Epshtein: The source of both ideas is the same, a feeling that the traditional consecutive, syntagmatic format no longer works for texts....

• Conceptual Reflection in Polish Art - Experiences of Discourse: 1965-1975

  Exhibition Reviews

  Created: Tuesday, 17 August 1999 18:05 Author: Ken Lum (Vancouver) and Adam Szymczyk (Warsaw)

  Conceptual Reflection in Polish Art - Experiences of Discourse: 1965-1975, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. May 31 - September 5, 1999 Conceptual Reflection in Polish Art. Experiences of Discourse, 1965-1975, exhibiting at Center...

• Laibach: The Instrumentality of the State Machine

  Articles

  Created: Monday, 23 August 1999 17:43 Author: Winifred Griffin (Minneapolis)

  Laibach is a musical group that first began performing in the mining town of Trbovlje in central Slovenia in 1980. With Tito's death that year, the future of Yugoslavia became uncertain, and throughout the 1980s youth subcultures engaged in agitation in t...

• Freud-Lissitzky Project

  Articles

  Created: Sunday, 19 September 1999 13:13 Author: Lev Manovich (San Diego), Norman Klein (Los Angeles), Luke Matjas (Camarillo, CA) and Mark Daggette (Santa Barbara)

  The goal of the Freud-Lissitzky Project is to reconstruct the mythical computer game whose history spans the 20th century. As we uncover more elements of the game, they will be added to the site....

• Margarita Tupitsyn: 'The Soviet Photograph, 1924-1937'

  Book Reviews

  Created: Monday, 25 October 1999 16:53 Author: Erika Wolf (Rochester, NY)

  Despite the growing literature on early Soviet photography, most studies remain limited to the photographic activity of a few avant-garde artists. This exclusive focus is problematic, as much of the history of Soviet photograph has been treated in terms o...

• Denise Youngblood: 'The Magic Mirror. Moviemaking in Russia, 1908-1918.'

  Book Reviews

  Created: Monday, 25 October 1999 17:03 Author: Anindita Banerjee (Los Angeles)

  Cinema is indubitably one of the indices by which modernity has come to be measured Apart from being a technical marvel whose very existence is intrinsically associated with the twentieth century, the act of making and watching movies paved the way for a ...

• Avdei Ter-Oganian Against the New Russian Idolatry

  Articles

  Created: Thursday, 11 November 1999 11:50 Author: Kirill Postoutenko (St. Petersburg)

  On December 4, 1998 Avdei Ter-Oganian performed in Moscow's Manezh exhibition hall an action he called the "Desecration of Holy Objects". Simply speaking, he took an axe and proceeded to chop up photographs of several Russian orthodox icons. ...

• Male Artist's Body: National Identity Vs. Identity Politics

  Articles

  Created: Wednesday, 17 November 1999 17:14 Author: Piotr Piotrowsky (Poland)

  As has been convincingly shown by the exhibition "Body and the East," since the 1960s, in East Central Europe the art of the male body has had quite a number of adherents. There are many relevant examples: Tibor Hajas, Via Lewandovsky, Petr Tembera, and o...

• Can the Other Be Eaten: Live From Moscow or Royal With Cheese?

  Articles

  Created: Wednesday, 15 December 1999 12:02 Author: Dragan Kujundzic (Gainesville)

  In order to arrive at the present moment, to bring you "live from Russia," which I intend to do in the second part of my essay, I will introduce the archeology of Russian historical and geopolitical "identity."...

• KGB, or, the Art of Performance: Action Art or Actions Against Art?

  Articles

  Created: Thursday, 30 December 1999 11:45 Author: Sylvia Sasse (Berlin)

  Quite a few people were astonished when a few months ago the portrait of the young "revolutionary" poet Dmitrii Pimenov appeared on Russian televsion. ...

• 'Perspective' (exhibition-symposium-screenings)

  Articles

  Created: Thursday, 30 December 1999 16:25 Author: Agnes Veronika Kovács (Budapest)

  "Perspective is old evidence that we use fragmentally. By rethinking its structure, we can reach a dialogue covering everything that is essential to contemporary art. Questions arise, such as: what is the picture? What are the systems in space and their a...

• Ilya Kabakov: The Soviet Toilet and the Palace of Utopias

  Exhibition Reviews

  Created: Thursday, 30 December 1999 16:37 Author: Svetlana Boym (Cambridge, MA)

  At the end of the millennium, it has become fashionable to speak about the "end of history" and the "end of art," to say nothing about the end of the world....

• The Culture of Lies, the Museum of Unconditional Surrender: Dubravka Ugresic’s Recent Work

  Articles

  Created: Thursday, 30 December 1999 16:47 Author: Martha Kuhlman (Rhode Island)

  In 1993, a Danish critic reviewing Dubravka Ugresic's novel Fording the Stream of Consciousness, a clever satire of a literary conference, accused her of engaging in a crass form of literary escapism when she should have been writing about the"bloody war"...

• Non-Official Art, Old and New

  Exhibition Reviews

  Created: Wednesday, 26 January 2000 15:17 Author: Stephan Küpper (Berlin)

  Die Sanft-Mutigen. Moscow metaphysical painters of the 60's - 90's: Mikhail Shvartsman, Vladimir Vaisberg, Eduard Steinberg, Ilya Tabenkin, Dmitry Krasnopevcev. 11/17/99 - 12/16/99, Russisches Haus der Wisenschaft und Kultur, Friedrichstrasse 176, 10117 B...

• The Wit and Grace of Jiri Menzel

  Film & Screen Media

  Created: Wednesday, 26 January 2000 15:25 Author: Martha Kuhlmann (New York)

  If asked to name one Czech film, an American film buff will mostly likely mention Jiri Menzel's Oscar winning "Closely Watched Trains" (1966). But Menzel has directed 15 feature films, several of which are just as wonderful, if not better. ...

• The State of the Art: Hungary

  Articles

  Created: Thursday, 27 January 2000 15:30 Author: Agnes Kovács (Budapest)

  As is the case anywhere in the world, in Hungary, the institutions of art are based on three foundations: the artist, the work of art, and the audience. The relations that operate between these three imply different types of institutions. In order to docu...

• The Politicization of the Private, or the Privatization of Politics? A View of Recent Czech Art by Women

  Articles

  Created: Thursday, 27 January 2000 15:44 Author: Martina Pachmanová (Prague/New York)

  Focusing on Czech women artists working in installation, photography, performance, and sculpture, I want to explore the subversion of phallocentric paradigms in East-Central European culture and society from a feminist perspective. ...

• Katarina Rusnakova: "Every Institution is a Tool for Violence"

  Interviews

  Created: Sunday, 27 February 2000 15:29 Author: Lenka Lindaurová and Karel Císař (Prague)

  Katarína Rusnáková was appointed Director of Collections at the Prague National Gallery at Veletržní Palác on August 1, 1999. She previously worked at the Povážská galéria in Žilina, Slovakia....

• "It's Yesterday's Train That's Late" : Underground Rock and the Changing Face of Art Theory in Hungary

  Articles

  Created: Thursday, 06 April 2000 15:01 Author: Anna Szemere (Budapest/Chapel Hill)

  Trabant-icon of Hungarian underground rock Jeno Menyhart, one of the most articulate personalities of the Hungarian underground rock scene, once remarked somewhat cryptically that "it is yesterday's train that's late". He said it in a resigned voice, shor...

• "Unmade": Self-Portraits by Monika Duda

  Exhibition Reviews

  Created: Thursday, 06 April 2000 15:06 Author: Pawel Polit (Warsaw)

  Monika Duda. Unmade. Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland. 10 March-30 April 2000.    Monika Duda's Unmade, a series of several dozen photographic self-portraits made over a period of six months (from January 1999 until June 19...

• Problems in Transit: Performance in Romania

  Articles

  Created: Thursday, 27 April 2000 14:19 Author: Ileana Pintilie (Timisoara)

  Politically, socially, and economically speaking, the collapse of communism has brought about a lot of changes to the countries of East-Central Europe. ...

• Catastrophe and Hedonism: An Unnostalgic Look at Russian Art of the Last Decade

  Articles

  Created: Saturday, 06 May 2000 14:11 Author: Ekaterina Dyogot (Moscow)

  In the Russian Art scene, the 1990s seemed like a never-ending decline where no activity lasted longer than two seasons, either because of a lack of money or simply due to overwhelming incompetence. Whatever did survive, usually funded by the state or by ...

• For a New Ecstatic Theater

  Articles

  Created: Thursday, 18 May 2000 13:59 Author: Javor Gardev (Sofia)

  Javor Gardev, one of Bulgaria’s most innovative directors, lives and works in Sofia. He is a member and co-founder of the Triumviratus Art Group, a collective whose activities focus on the theater, performance, literature, video art, and the radio. Now ...

• Est-ethics of Counter-Documentary

  Articles

  Created: Friday, 16 June 2000 12:30 Author: Joanne Richardson (North Carolina)

  DOCUMENTARY. DOCUMENT. EVIDENCE, EXAMPLE, PROOF, LESSON, FROM DOCERE, TO TEACH. Documentary film production has wavered between the contradictory illuminations of its etymological shadow. ...

• Neue Slowenische Kunst: Miran Mohar, Borut Vogelnik and Eda Zufer

  Interviews

  Created: Friday, 16 June 2000 12:50 Author: Joanne Richardson (Budapest)

  Joanne Richardson: Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) was formed in the early 1980s in Slovenia from the discrete groups Laibach, whose musical performances exhibited a fanatical overidentification with totalitarian rituals, the visual arts group Irwin, whose m...

• Ripping Off the Emperor's Clothes: Jo Anna Isaak

  Interviews

  Created: Friday, 16 June 2000 14:27 Author: Martina Pachmanová (Prague)

  Jo Anna Isaak is a writer and curator living in New York City. Her recent exhibitions include: Laughter Ten Years After (1996-98) and Looking Forward Looking Black now touring in the U. S. Currently she is working on Aquaria, an exhibition about water, ...