Storms and Networks. In the Eye of the StormStorms and Networks. In the Eye of the Storm

9:00 - 19:30 Uhr

Modernism is not a compact phenomenon of art history.
By the end of the 19th century, the art scenes in the established cultural centres were becoming increasingly diverse, but the paradigm shift did not take place only in Paris, London, Berlin, and Vienna. From 1900 onwards, very intense impulses for the entire modern art movement came from the various regions of Central and South-Eastern Europe. But how can the territory of networked and exchanged modernity be delimited? Where are the geopolitical boundaries of what we call “modernity” in the broad cultural sense?
How far has the notion of a new art that breaks its formal norms and deconstructs social conventions penetrated? Rather than drawing alternative maps that, with a diachronic approach, re-establish the boundaries of the modernist world again and in a different way, we are also moved to examine this question critically in the light of current revisions of concepts such as nation, border, identity, history, myth, etc. On the occasion of the exhibition In the Eye of the Storm, the Austrian Gallery Belvedere is organising a scientific symposium with the aim of discussing with experts on this period of art the question of the situation of Modernism in the peripheral centres of art history. Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa, as well as Kosice, Krakow, Brno, Miskolc, and many other places, but also small regions outside the mainstream of international galleries, have an exciting scene, or simply solitaires of art, without which Modernism could not achieve the global impact it did.

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