ARTMargins Online Forms Working and Advisory Collective Focused on Global Peripheries Research
ARTMargins Online has established a Working and Advisory Collective dedicated to exploring art from global peripheries, with a particular emphasis on Eastern Europe and post-Soviet areas. The collective comprises members such as Anna Aliyeva from Kyiv's National Art Museum, Christianna Bonin of the American University of Sharjah, Inesa Brašiškė from Sapieha Palace in Vilnius, and Jonida Gashi representing Albania's Academy of Sciences. Other participants include Uladzimir Hramovich (Berlin), Raino Isto (University of Maryland), Erëmirë Krasniqi (Prishtina), Zsuzsa László (Budapest), Alisa Lozhkina (California), Envera Moro (Balkans), Asel Rashidova (Kyrgyzstan), Nare Sahakyan (Yerevan), Susan Snodgrass (Chicago), Sven Spieker, and Tihomir Topuzovski (Skopje). Each member brings distinct research and projects pertinent to their areas of expertise.
Key facts
- ARTMargins Online has formed a Working and Advisory Collective focused on art from global peripheries.
- The collective's research emphasizes Eastern European and post-Soviet margins.
- Members include art historians, curators, and researchers from Ukraine, UAE, Lithuania, Albania, Belarus, US, Kosovo, Hungary, California, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Chicago, Germany, North Macedonia, and the UK.
- Anna Aliyeva specializes in Ukrainian Soviet-period art and provenance research at the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv.
- Christianna Bonin authored "The art of the Sixtiers in Soviet Kazakhstan, or How to Make a Portrait from a Skull" (2021) and is working on Soviet Orient: Art and Empire in Central Asia, 1900–1975.
- Inesa Brašiškė curated exhibitions like Eva Kot'átková: Interviews with the Monster (2025) and plans a Marie Menken retrospective.
- Erëmirë Krasniqi curated Kosovo's pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, earning a Special Mention.
- Sven Spieker is founding editor of ARTMargins publications and authored Art as Demonstration: A Revolutionary Recasting of Knowledge (2024).
- Tihomir Topuzovski directs the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje and wrote Postanarchism and Critical Art Practices (2024).
Entities
Artists
- Anna Aliyeva
- Christianna Bonin
- Inesa Brašiškė
- Jonida Gashi
- Uladzimir Hramovich
- Raino Isto
- Erëmirë Krasniqi
- Zsuzsa László
- Alisa Lozhkina
- Envera Moro
- Asel Rashidova
- Nare Sahakyan
- Susan Snodgrass
- Sven Spieker
- Tihomir Topuzovski
- Christopher Williams-Wynn
- Eva Kot'átková
- Kazimiera Zimblytė
- Rose Lowder
- Aurelija Maknytė
- Marie Menken
- László Beke
- Ken Isaacs
- Wilhelm Matevosyan
Institutions
- ARTMargins Online
- National Art Museum of Ukraine
- American University of Sharjah
- Fulbright Program
- Clark Art Institute
- Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
- American University
- Art Dubai Modern
- Lkham Gallery
- Artforum
- Sapieha Palace
- Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
- Mousse Magazine
- MoMA C-Map Post
- CAA News
- National Gallery of Art, Vilnius
- MO Museum
- e-flux
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
- ICI
- Lithuanian Council for Culture
- ISLAA
- Getty Center
- College Art Association
- Paul Mellon Centre
- Centre for Art Studies at the Academy of Sciences of Albania
- Pika pa sipërfaqe
- Studime për artin/Art Studies
- Academy of Albanian Studies
- DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art
- Problem Collective
- University of Maryland, College Park
- Art History
- Third Text
- RACAR
- Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
- Science Fiction Studies
- Extrapolation
- International Journal for History, Culture, and Modernity
- International Labor and Working-Class History
- The Getty Research Journal
- Camera Austria
- frieze
- Oral History Initiative
- Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation
- Secondary Archive
- Muzeum Susch
- National Gallery of Kosovo
- National Gallery of Arts in Albania
- 39th EVA International
- La Biennale di Venezia
- Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
- Central European Research Institute for Art History
- tranzit/hu
- Toronto University Press
- Routledge
- Birkbeck, University of London
- University of Sarajevo
- Balkan Museum Network
- ŠTO TE NEMA
- University of Glasgow
- University of Tartu
- Radboud University
- Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
- Esimde
- Zamanbap Art Collective
- Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture
- Ashot Johannissyan Research Institute in the Humanities
- State Academy of Fine Arts in Yerevan
- SAFA Boyajian Gallery
- American University of Beirut
- Half Letter Press
- Art in America
- Textile: Cloth and Culture
- Schools of Departure: Design and Art Pedagogies Beyond the Bauhaus
- Andy Warhol Foundation
- Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation
- Working Group Cultures of World Socialism
- Working Group Contemporary Art in Central Asia
- MIT Press
- Institute of Social Sciences and the Humanities
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
- Centre for Baltic and East European Studies
- Södertörn University
- The Large Glass
Locations
- Kyiv
- Ukraine
- Sharjah
- United Arab Emirates
- Vilnius
- Lithuania
- Prishtina
- Kosovo
- Berlin
- Germany
- Washington, DC
- United States
- Budapest
- Hungary
- California
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- London
- United Kingdom
- Sarajevo
- Bishkek
- Kyrgyzstan
- Almaty
- Kazakhstan
- Yerevan
- Armenia
- Chicago
- Skopje
- North Macedonia
- Stockholm
- Sweden
- Minsk
- Belarus
- Ulaanbaatar
- Mongolia
- Ireland
- Venice
- Italy
- Moscow
- Russia
- Beirut
- Lebanon