Questions of race, ethnicity and decolonization in East European art - Detailseite

The course reviews post- and decolonial perspectives on the visual representation of race and ethnicity. This also implicates an engagement with decolonial museology, the creative practice of racial minorities as well as art produced beyond cultural centers of the world. Within this broad framing, we will critically reflect upon how these aspects have shaped East-Central European cultural landscapes in the modernist period, in the post-World War II decades, and in most recent years. What role(s) has the region assumed in historical processes of colonization, both as the beneficiary or victim of racialized power relations? How are these experiences reflected in the genesis of local museum collections, in historical representations of racial others as well as in East-South cultural alliances in the socialist era? We will also explore the contribution of artists and art professionals from the region to current debates on decolonizing art history and the museum. 

Joanna Warsza and Jan Sowa: Eastern European Coloniality without Colonies

Catherine Grant and Dorothy Price: Decolonizing Art History

Erica Lehrer & Joanna Wawrzyniak: Decolonial Museology in East-Central Europe: A Preliminary To-Do List

Nancy Adajania: Global Art, in: L’Internationale: Post-war Avant-gardes between 1957 and 1986

Kovács, É. Black Bodies, White Bodies – ‘Gypsy’ Images in Central Europe at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1880–1920).

selected entries from Post-colonial Studies: The Key Concepts

Im Zusammenhang mit dem Seminar ist am 18.5.2024 ein Tagesausflug  zur Ausstellung Revolutionary Romances? Globale Kunstgeschichten in der DDR Dresden Albertinum (Laufzeit bis 02.06.2024) geplant.

Sprache: Englisch; Präsentationen und Hausarbeiten auch auf Deutsch möglich.

Hausarbeit