Central & Eastern Europe

Budapest-based art historians and curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes comment on the need for a more planetary, as opposed to global, model of art

Members of MoMA’s C-MAP Central and Eastern European group reflect on their research trip to Warsaw and Łódź, Poland and Berlin, Germany, which took place in late May / early June, 2016. Over the course of a week, the 14 travelers met with over 70 individuals, including artists, curators, dealers, and art historians; conducted two…

Twenty images of artworks and related materials by the Slovene group OHO from the MoMA Archives have been digitized and made accessible here.

Ana Janevski interviews the Croatian artist Mladen Stilinović in his apartment in Zagreb in March 2013 during the C-MAP Central and Eastern European group trip to Novi Sad, Belgrade, Ljubljana and Zagreb.

In the third and final part of this multi-section essay, art historian Ksenya Gurshtein addresses OHO Group’s work in the year 1970.

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.

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.

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.

This essay is adapted from a lecture on the strategies of dissidence in East German art by curator Christoph Tannert, who met with members of the C-MAP Central and Eastern European group on June 3, 2016 during a research trip to Berlin.

Ksenia Nouril, C-MAP Fellow for Central and Eastern European Art at MoMA, researched Modern art and met with contemporary artists on a recent trip to St. Petersburg, Russia, an Imperial city that weaves classical traditions with contemporary sensibilities. In 1833, Russian Romantic poet Aleksandr Pushkin described St. Petersburg as a “northern prodigy” with “granite banks”…

Photography provided a guaranteed witness to the burgeoning genre of performance art in the 1960s, when restrictions in Socialist societies sometimes created a far different relationship between performance and documentation than in the West. Art historian Amy Bryzgel highlights several key works of Central and Eastern Europeanperformance art from the MoMA Collection. Artists have been…

Juliet Kinchin, Curator of Architecture and Design, in consultation with Alexandra Sankova, Director of the Moscow Design Museum, looks into the Cold War transnational connections in Raymond Loewy’s work. “Scallops St. Tropez” was Raymond Loewy’s contribution to a book of celebrity recipes published in 1958. The book’s editor, Helen Dunn, introduced Loewy, as “perhaps the…