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• From Kowalski's Studio Into the World: Katarzyno Kozyro, Pawel Althamer, Artur Zmijewski

  Articles

  Created: Saturday, 26 August 2000 12:04 Author: Adam Szymczyk (Warsaw)

  The year 1989 marked the transformation of the political system in Poland. The sequence is well known: the communists peacefully renounce power, "real socialism" tactfully gives way to democracy and the free market economy. What was the artists' response?...

• Dispelling the Myth that Net Art is (Not) a Commodity: Olia Lialina

  Interviews

  Created: Saturday, 26 August 2000 13:25 Author: Sven Spieker (Los Angeles)

  S. S.: What is the situation of the net art and net artists in Russia?...

• "A Universal System for Depicting Everything": A Dialogue Between Ilya Kabakov and Boris Groys

  Interviews

  Created: Saturday, 26 August 2000 13:29 Author: Ilya Kabakov (Long Island) and Boris Groys (Cologne)

  I. K.: Without any foreword my album "A Universal System for Depicting Everything" plunges into an exploration of some sort of fantastic system, namely, a system for a view from the fourth dimension. It is an elaboration, in several sketches, of how our r...

• Beyond the Abstract Cabinet

  Book Reviews

  Created: Saturday, 26 August 2000 13:40 Author: Éva Forgács (Pasadena)

  Margarita Tupitsyn: El Lissitzky. Beyond the Abstract Cabinet. With essays by Matthew Drutt and Ulrich Pohlmann. New Haven-Hanover: Yale University Press and the Sprengel Museum, 1999.Accompanying the traveling exhibition of Lissitzky's photographic work,...

• The Theory and History of Samizdat

  Book Reviews

  Created: Saturday, 26 August 2000 13:51 Author: Dirk Uffelmann (Erfurt)

  Guenter Hirt; Sascha Wonders [eds.]: Praeprintium. Moskauer Bücher aus dem Samizdat. [Praeprintium. Moscow samizdat books.] CD-ROM. Bremen: Edition Temmen 1998, 230 pp.Praeprintium, an exhibition that presented for the first time a large spectrum of Mosc...

• Healing the Ruptured Memory

  Interviews

  Created: Saturday, 26 August 2000 13:54 Author: Augustin Ioan (Bucharest)

  Why should the demolished Orthodox monasteries of Bucharest be rebuilt? After ten years, could this possibly still be a relevant issue in Romanian public and cultural life? Very much so: two prestigious Bucharest cultural journals, 22 and Dilema, recently...

• Video, Archive, Storage: Moscow Performance Art in the Age of Digital Repetition

  Interviews

  Created: Saturday, 26 August 2000 14:03 Author: Sabine Hänsgen (Bremen)

  Andrey Monastyrski lives and works in Moscow where he studied philology. Since 1971/72 he has created serial structures and minimalist sound compositions. In the mid-1970s, he began to be interested in poetic objects and performance actions. Monastyrski i...

• Kultura Dva in Digital Space: A Virtual Museum of the USSR

  Articles

  Created: Saturday, 26 August 2000 21:35 Author: Olga Filippova (Salt Lake City); Vladimir Paperny (Los Angeles)

  Preface to the Museum of the USSR-- Vladimir Paperny (Los Angeles)A quarter of a century ago, I started looking at the shapes of the Soviet architecture, trying to "read" them as cultural utterances. The results were published in Russian under the title K...

• "Sigmund Freud's Cabinet of Dreams" in St. Petersburg

  Articles

  Created: Tuesday, 26 September 2000 11:32 Author: Heike Wegner (Vienna) and Victor Mazin (St. Petersburg)

  Kabinet It is difficult to assess the dream that is the Freud Museum without another dream, the dream of Kabinet. Based in St. Petersburg, Kabinet is the name of a group with a constantly changing membership as well as an open series of publications on q...

• The State of Video Art in Bulgaria

  Articles

  Created: Tuesday, 26 September 2000 11:48 Author: Iara Boubnova (Sofia) and Luchezar Boyadjiev (Sofia)

  The delayed but hasty development of contemporary art in Bulgaria since 1985 eventually led to the point where artists "discovered" video… Since 1985, Bulgarian contemporary art has experienced phenomenal strides. Recovering from its delayed development...

• "Peripheric 4"

  Exhibition Reviews

  Created: Tuesday, 26 September 2000 13:13 Author: Ileana Pintilie (Timisoara)

  Peripheric 4, Iassy, Romania (May 18-24, 2000)Peripheric was brought to life only four years ago, on the initiative of artist Matei Bejenaru. Iassy had until then been an isolated and conservative town with regard to the visual arts, in spite of its long ...

• From Counter-Bourgeois to Context-Oriented

  Exhibition Reviews

  Created: Tuesday, 26 September 2000 13:19 Author: Pawel Polit (Warsaw)

  Amateur--variable research initiatives 1900 & 2000. Göteborgs Konstmuseum, 20 May - 17 September 2000.The exhibition entitled Amateur - variable research initiatives 1900 & 2000, held at the Goeteborg Konstmuseum and at the neighbouring Hasselblad Center...

• Romanian Autism - Bucharest Architecture and its Histories

  Book Reviews

  Created: Tuesday, 26 September 2000 13:35 Author: Augustin Ioan (Bucharest)

  Luminita Machedon and Ernie Scoffam, Romanian Modernism - The Architecture of Bucharest, 1920-1940, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.Except for an extended, and largely favorable, review in The Times Literary Supplement, the book and its topic, Romanian Mod...

• Dimitri Kozyrev (Online Gallery)

  Artists

  Created: Tuesday, 26 September 2000 15:30 Author: Administrator

  My recent work stems from observations based on the driving experience. Using freeway systems as the investigative constant, these paintings and drawings attempt to recreate the pure structure of urban landscape. In recreation, the original experience is ...

• Synthesis: Retro-Avant-Garde, or, Mapping Post-Socialism in Ex-Yugoslavia

  Articles

  Created: Tuesday, 26 September 2000 20:24 Author: Marina Grzinic (Ljubljana)

  One always searches for some symbolic point from which one can claim that something ended and something else began, even though there are no beginnings and no endings. From a Western European or an American point of view, the changes tha...

• Experiences of Discourse. Polish Conceptual Art 1965 - 1975

  Articles

  Created: Thursday, 26 October 2000 11:18 Author: Pawel Polit (Warsaw)

  In the middle of the sixties in Polish avant-garde art there appeared a significant turn in the way works of art and the process of their reception were understood. This was part of the more widespread cultural and social changes that were then taking pla...

• The Wall After the Wall

  Articles

  Created: Thursday, 26 October 2000 12:44 Author: Irina Sandomirskaja (Stockholm)

  After the Wall. Art and culture in post-communist Europe. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, October 16, 1999 - January 16, 2001 "A deafening noise": this was a complaint made by my Swedish students after a visit to After the Wall. 140 artists from 22 countries. ...

• From Sochi to Moscow: Last Season's Film Festivals in Russia

  Film & Screen Media

  Created: Thursday, 26 October 2000 13:00 Author: Birgit Beumers (Bristol)

  After his election to the Chairman of the Filmmakers' Union in 1998, Mikhalkov immediately announced his plans to make the Moscow International Film Festival (whose chairman he became automatically with his election) an annual event. Since its first regul...

• Ilya Kabakov: "50 Installations"

  Exhibition Reviews

  Created: Thursday, 26 October 2000 16:29 Author: Sabine Hagenbuch and Stephan Küpper (Berlin)

  "For Kabakov, art remains an inevitable, existential need and a therapy for survival. The artist loves the museum not merely as an institution, but as a personal refuge," Svetlana Boym argues in her recent essay for this publication, The Soviet Toilet and...

• Theater as Simulation, or the Virtual Overcoat: Towards a Theater of the Postmodern

  Film & Screen Media

  Created: Thursday, 26 October 2000 19:52 Author: Birgit Beumers (Bristol)

  For over an entire century theater has existed as make-believe, as it has tried to create the illusion of reality on stage by developing the notion of empathy in order to stimulate the spectator emotionally. For over three quarters of a century this conve...

• TECHNO-Trangressions C.U.K.T.: Jacek Niegoda and Peter Style

  Interviews

  Created: Friday, 05 January 2001 16:38 Author: Joasia Krysa (London)

  C.U.K.T. (The Central Office of Technical Culture) was established in 1995 in order to disseminate and distribute technical culture. C.U.K.T uses its own stamps and distributes official forms; it exchanges correspondence with other institutions as well as...

• "Metelkova" and Other Projects in Ljubljana: Actions in Zones of Indifference

  Articles

  Created: Thursday, 01 February 2001 19:51 Author: Marina Grzinic (Ljubljana)

  Until 1991, the army barracks of the former Yugoslav army were located in Metelkova Street in the city of Ljubljana, Slovenia. However, after the Yugoslav army had been obliged to leave Slovenia in 1991, the City Council of Ljubljana was asked to...

• The Body in the Sphere of Literacy: Bakhtin, Artaud and Post-Soviet Performance Art

  Articles

  Created: Thursday, 22 February 2001 20:03 Author: Jurij Murasov (Bielefeld)

  In Mikhail Bakhtin's critical work Rabelais and His World (1940/65), one finds an extensive vocabulary taken from theatrical practice: drama, dialog/monologue, performance. This has no explicit conceptual relevance - Bakhtin never intended to ...

• Amazons of the Avant-Garde: Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udaltsov

  Articles

  Created: Sunday, 25 February 2001 14:31 Author: Anna Wexler (Boston)

  On January 11th 1927, after visiting the Moscow Museum of Painting and encountering its collection of works of the Russian avant-garde, Walter Benjamin wrote in his diary: "Their stuff is worthless. Just like most of the things hanging in the three rooms,...

• Cultural Contradictions: On "Tusovka"

  Articles

  Created: Wednesday, 28 February 2001 19:59 Author: Viktor Misiano (Moscow)

  Tusovka represents a form of self-organization of the artistic environment that is chronically lacking in state support. It does not occur within the contours of what is commonly called official culture. It came about as the direct result of th...

• NoD Slowly Steps into the Spotlight

  Articles

  Created: Sunday, 15 April 2001 14:06 Author: Marisa Ravalli (Prague)

  With new cafes, galleries, theatres, and cinemas springing up all over Prague, it seems this city is justified to once again call itself a metropolis of culture. There is such a wide range of places to choose from that every evening presents the challenge...

• The "Old New" Connection Between Czech and Slovak Art

  Exhibition Reviews

  Created: Sunday, 15 April 2001 14:18 Author: Martina Pachmanová (New York)

  It has been more than seven years since Czechoslovakia split into two independent countries, and no matter how many international links the artists in both countries have established since, their once common connections and mutual interests have become so...

• Indivisible Reminders

  Book Reviews

  Created: Sunday, 15 April 2001 19:04 Author: Toma Longinovich (Madison, Wisconsin)

  Slavoj Žižek, The Indivisible Remainder (London: Verso, 1996).Slavoj Žižek, The Fragile Absolute (London: Verso, 2000).  Slavoj Žižek's book The Indivisible Remainder opens with a statement of national belonging: "As a Slovene". This embrace of Sl...

• Polar Bears on the Balkans

  Articles

  Created: Sunday, 15 April 2001 19:45 Author: Iara Boubovna (Sofia)

  Let me begin my essay by telling a short anecdote: "Once upon a time, somewhere close to the North Pole, one baby polar bear asked his mother: -Mommy, are you sure that I am a real polar bear? -Yes, she answered. -And a...

• Bringing Back the Baroque: Actual Infinity

  Exhibition Reviews

  Created: Wednesday, 25 April 2001 13:51 Author: Marissa Prihodova (Prague)

  "Actual Infinity", The Prague City Gallery - Municipal Library, 2nd floor. Marianske Square 1, Prague 1 110 00, Czech Republic.The baroque period in Bohemia was a time of universal education and cultural practice, and it showed a tendency toward individua...

• Poles Apart: The Irreconcilable Conflict of Aging

  Articles

  Created: Monday, 30 April 2001 15:24 Author: Joasia Krysa (United Kingdom)

  In 1989, the same year that British artists were responding to Thatcherite Britain by organizing art shows in warehouses, their Polish counterparts were trying to come to terms with a newly emerging political and social order that influenced and resh...

• Alternative Identities: Conceptual Transformations in Soviet and Post-Soviet Architecture

  Articles

  Created: Monday, 30 April 2001 19:34 Author: Anna Sokolina (New York)

  The development of Russian architecture, from the neo-classicism of the 1950s to the postmodern trends of the 1990s, followed socialist and post-socialist economic and political cycles. Soviet architecture was essentially an element in the s...

• "Small Talk"

  Exhibition Reviews

  Created: Thursday, 10 May 2001 13:47 Author: Luchezar Boyadijev (Sofia)

  Group exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia. April-June, 2001.  By definition, "small talk" refers to those seemingly insignificant things that we say in between the periods of discussions concerned with important, ...

• Letter From Romania I: A Dialogue Between Art and Industry

  Articles

  Created: Monday, 04 June 2001 13:28 Author: Luiza Barcan (Bucharest)

  In Romania, the notion of privately funded cultural initiatives is still in its very early stages. Until only recently, wealthy members of Romanian society have been reluctant to contribute to the arts, and artists across all mediums have traditionall...

• NSK: Retro-Spection

  Exhibition Reviews

  Created: Monday, 04 June 2001 13:36 Author: Winifred Griffin (Minneapolis)

  In 1989, the same year that British artists were responding to Thatcherite Britain the art collective NSK-Neue Slowenische Kunst (New Slovene Art,) was formed in 1983 when the music and ideological group Laibach joined with the fine arts group Ir...

• IKEA in Moscow

  Articles

  Created: Tuesday, 31 July 2001 19:30 Author: Irina Sandomirskaja (Stockholm)

  "Are the prices here given in rubles or in dollars?" -This young man has quite obviously lost it. It is a matter of universal knowledge that IKEA sofas do not cost five-digit figures in US dollars. Clutching my new money tree I remind myself that in R...

• Kira Muratova's "Minor People"

  Film & Screen Media

  Created: Wednesday, 15 August 2001 14:09 Author: Birgit Beumers (Bristol)

  Minor People. Dir Kira Muratova. Starring Philippe Panov and Natasha Buzko (2001)  Muratova's latest film explores the theme of death: in the first scene of the film, we see a doctor attending to a critically ill patient. The reaction ...

• Leaving Las Vegas

  Articles

  Created: Tuesday, 28 August 2001 15:06 Author: Vladimir Paperny (Los Angeles)

  Since 1996, Dmitri Shalin, who teaches sociology at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, has organized bi-annual festivals devoted to (post-) Soviet culture in the City of Lights, with a varying cast of participants and audiences drawn fr...

• "Moscow". Dir. Alexander Zeldovich (2000)

  Film & Screen Media

  Created: Friday, 31 August 2001 13:49 Author: Mark Lipovetsky

  The script "Moscow" by the well-known prose writer and conceptualist Vladimir Sorokin (written jointly with A. Zeldovich) explored the emergence of a new language of power, a discourse of the "new Russians" from the splinters of the Soviet monolith an...

• Dmitri Meskhiev's "Mechanical Suite"

  Film & Screen Media

  Created: Friday, 31 August 2001 13:56 Author: Birgit Beumers (Bristol)

  Dmitri Meskhiev's work over the last years has been quite uneven: from the experimental work in his adaptation of Mariengof's Cynics (1991), his poetic exploration of loneliness in Over Dark Waters (1993) and his short film in Arrival of a Train...

• Late Night Talks With Mother: New Films from the Karlovy Vary and Plzen Film Festivals

  Film & Screen Media

  Created: Friday, 31 August 2001 14:00 Author: Peter Hames (United Kingdom)

  This new film from Czech director Jan Nemec has proved a surprise success at a number of festivals, including Plzen, Karlovy Vary, and Locarno, where it won the main award in the competition for video. It is now scheduled for London, Mannheim, and R...

• Methods of Madness: The Old and The New In Prague

  Articles

  Created: Sunday, 09 September 2001 14:59 Author: Marisa Prihodova (Prague)

  Considering all the drastic changes the face of Prague has endured during the last 10 years, the inside of Czech art institutions and galleries has actually seen very little transformation. Mass refurbishments continue to dominate the mise-en-scene of ...

• The Hero in Recent Romanian Painting

  Articles

  Created: Monday, 10 September 2001 11:27 Author: Luiza Barcan (Bucharest)

  University of Fine Arts, Bucharest. June, 2001  A successful exhibit of recent painting by Alexandru Radvan opened at the gallery of the University of Fine Arts in Bucharest at the end of last June. Radvan is an important player among ...

• Alexander Rodchenko

  Book Reviews

  Created: Monday, 10 September 2001 21:23 Author: Erika Wolf (Rochester)

  Magdalena Dabrowski, Leah Dickerman, and Peter Galassi. Aleksandr Rodchenko. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1998.  This exhibition catalogue, published in conjunction with the first major American retrospective of Aleksandr...

• Women on the Edge of Feminism

  Exhibition Reviews

  Created: Thursday, 20 September 2001 21:12 Author: Maria Vassileva (Sofia)

  This exhibition took place in the Saint Sofia underpass in the shops and pedestrian zones between the Central Universal Shop and the Sheraton Hotel, June, 20-24, 2001. "The 8th of March" women’s group has existed in the cultural horiz...

• Central and East European Art and Culture, 1945-Present

  Interviews

  Created: Monday, 15 October 2001 14:37 Author: Susan Snodgrass (Chicago)

  The following roundtable concluded a panel devoted to contemporary and art historical perspectives on central and East European art and culture from 1945 to the present at this year’s College Art Association Conference in Chicago. The panel was co...

• After Stalin’s Death: Modernism in Central Europe in the late 1950s

  Articles

  Created: Monday, 15 October 2001 15:30 Author: Piotr Piotrowski (Poznan)

  The following essay is the first in a series of interventions concerning the "state of the art" in East-Central Europe. It was first delivered as a lecture at this year’s College Art Association conference in Chicago. Please see also the roundtable disc...

• Moving Pictures

  Film & Screen Media

  Created: Monday, 15 October 2001 21:02 Author: Marisa Prihodova (Prague)

  Galerie Behemot - June 15th - July 7th, 2001  One process that is peculiar to cinema is that of generating the impression of movement. Much like a still camera, a movie camera can only take one picture at a time, and the same is ...

• Lev Manovich Analyzes the Post-Media Age

  Articles

  Created: Thursday, 25 October 2001 17:12 Author: Lev Manovich (San Diego)

  Medium in Crisis In the last third of the twentieth century, various cultural and technological developments have altogether rendered meaningless one of the key concepts of modern art-the medium. No new topology of art practice, however, has come to rep...

• Editorial: Letter From Moscow

  Film & Screen Media

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2001 12:30 Author: Birgit Beumers (Bristol)

  The high season of film festivals is over for the year 2001, and after a long ‘low’ of international starts at Russian film festivals, the Moscow Film Festival (June 2001) could boast with the presence of Jack Nicholson, while the Sochi International ...