Poetry & Performance Exhibition Explores Eastern European Avant-Garde at Zurich's Shedhalle
The exhibition titled 'Poetry & Performance: The Eastern European Perspective' took place at Shedhalle in Zurich from August 16 to October 28, 2018. Curated by Tomáš Glanc and Sabine Hänsgen, the event featured contributions from scholars such as Dubravka Djurić and Václav Havel. It showcased over 150 pieces by 50 artists representing roughly a dozen nations, highlighting Eastern European art from the 1960s to the present. The architecture of the exhibition, created by RCNKSK, focused on a nonhierarchical layout. Notable works included Andrei Monastyrski's 1985 video 'Conversation with the Lamp' and Katalin Ladik's 1976 piece 'Phonopoetic (Phonopoetica).' The exhibition also explored modern digital practices and included themes of public interventions and cinematographic poetry. Prior displays were held in Žilina and Dresden.
Key facts
- Exhibition 'Poetry & Performance: The Eastern European Perspective' ran at Shedhalle, Zurich from August 16 to October 28, 2018
- Curated by Tomáš Glanc and Sabine Hänsgen with collaborators including Dubravka Djurić, Emese Kürti, Claus Löser, Pavel Novotný, Branka Stipančić, Darko Šimičić, and Mara Traumane
- Featured over 150 works by more than 50 artists from roughly a dozen Eastern European countries from the 1960s to today
- Exhibition architecture designed by Prague architects RCNKSK in the industrial Shedhalle space
- Organized into sections: Writing-Reading-Performance, Audio Gestures, Interventions in Public Space, Body Poetry, Cinematographic Poetry, and Language Games
- Key works include Andrei Monastyrski's 1985 video 'Conversation with the Lamp' and Katalin Ladik's 1976 'Phonopoetic (Phonopoetica)'
- Exhibition previously shown at New Synagogue in Žilina, Slovakia (December 23, 2017-March 10, 2018) and later at Dresden's Motorenhalle (opened April 11, 2019)
- Explores how Eastern European avant-garde art evolved in relative separation from the West and among Eastern European cultures during Soviet dominance
Entities
Artists
- Matthias Meindl
- Tomáš Glanc
- Sabine Hänsgen
- Dubravka Djurić
- Emese Kürti
- Claus Löser
- Pavel Novotný
- Branka Stipančić
- Darko Šimičić
- Mara Traumane
- Andrei Monastyrski
- Joseph Brodsky
- Bulat Okudzhava
- Günter Hirt
- Sascha Wonders
- Tamás Szentjóby
- Dmitri Prigov
- Josef Hiršal
- Bohumila Grögerová
- Václav Havel
- Gerhard Rühm
- Katalin Ladik
- Milan Adamčiak
- Boris Demur
- Dmitry Prigov
- Ewa Partum
- Tomislav Gotovac
- Damir Alter
- Sarah Gotovac
- Roman Osminkin
- Mark Lipovetsky
- Else Gabriel
- Via Lewandowsky
- Gino Hahnemann
- Jörg Herold
- Gabriele Stötzer
- Bogdanka Poznanović
- Attila Csernik
- Dragomir Ugren
- Miško Šuvaković
- Babi Badalov
- Egija Inzule
- Julia Sippel
- Daphni Antoniou
- Philip Ausländer
- Walter Benjamin
- Joanne Morra
- Marquard Smith
- Sylvia Sasse
- Ladislav Novák
- Mikhail Bakhtin
- Slobodan Tišma
- Piotr Piotrowski
- Piotr Lewiński
- Brian Alkire
Institutions
- ARTMargins Online
- Shedhalle
- RCNKSK
- Collective Actions Group
- acb Gallery
- acb Research
- Collection Darko Šimičić
- Tomislav Gotovac Institute
- Group of Six Artists
- Bosch+Bosch
- Solidarity movement
- Orange Alternative
- Municipal Museum of Liberec
- New Synagogue
- Motorenhalle
- Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina
- Edition S-Press
- Routledge
- A Journal of Performance and Art
- University of Zurich
- Student Cultural Center Belgrade
- Liberec Radio Studio
- Pussy Riot
- Performance Art in Eastern Europe project
Locations
- Zurich
- Switzerland
- Berlin
- Germany
- Moscow
- Russia
- Prague
- Czech Republic
- Budapest
- Hungary
- Zagreb
- Croatia
- Liberec
- North Bohemia
- Žilina
- North Western Slovakia
- Slovakia
- Dresden
- Belyaevo
- Fažana
- Voivodina
- Serbia
- Novi Sad
- Paris
- France
- Azerbaijan
- Wuppertal
- London
- United Kingdom
- Wrocław
- Poland
- Dnipro
- Ukraine
- Soviet Union
- Yugoslavia
- East Germany
- Vojvodina
- Belgrade
- Czechoslovakia
Sources
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