From the MoMA Archives: Works and Materials by OHO Group
Twenty images of artworks and related materials by the Slovene group OHO from the MoMA Archives have been digitized and made accessible here.
Ksenya Gurshtein
Ksenya Gurshtein is an art historian and currently an Assistant Curator at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Much of her research has focused on unofficial art and culture in post-war Eastern Europe. Her recent publications and curatorial projects include a special issue of the journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema on experimental cinema in post-war Eastern Europe, (co-edited with Sonja Simonyi, 2016), essays on the Slovene painter Bogoslav Kalaš and Moscow Conceptualists Komar & Melamid and Dmitry Prigov, and the film series “Artists, Amateurs, Alternative Spaces: Experimental Cinema in Eastern Europe, 1960-1990” (co-curated with Joanna Raczynska, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2014). Her work has been supported by the Getty Research Institute, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Part 3: The OHO Group,”Information,” and Global Conceptualism avant la lettre
In the third and final part of this multi-section essay, art historian Ksenya Gurshtein addresses OHO Group’s work in the year 1970.
Part 2: The OHO Group, “Information,” and Global Conceptualism avant la lettre
Consulting the MoMA Archives, this essay highlights and expands upon connections between the Slovene conceptual artists OHO Group and one of the Museum’s most well-known exhibitions.
OHO Group Members’ Newly Translated 1969 text: “An Interview with Milenko Matanović and Tomaž Šalamun”
Translated from Serbo-Croatian into English here for the first, this interview was published in the 1969 catalog of the exhibition Milenko Matanović, David Nez, Andraž Šalamun, Tomaž Šalamun that took place at the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.
Part 1: The OHO Group, “Information,” and Global Conceptualism avant la lettre
Consulting the MoMA Archives, this essay highlights and expands upon connections between the Slovene conceptual artists OHO Group and one of the Museum’s most well-known exhibitions.