PROGRAMME

Thursday 26 March, 19.00
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig

Presentation of the video installation Homme à Femmes by Gerard Byrne (Dublin)
Artist talk and panel discussion moderated by Eckhart Gillen (Berlin)

Friday 27 March
GWZO Seminarraum

9.30 Welcome

9.45 The visual and the written
chair: Dirk Suckow (GWZO Leipzig)

Gustav Frank (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
The visuality of the printed wor(l)d

Zsuzsa László (tranzit.hu Budapest)
Parallel Chronologies: Deconstructing the visuality and constructing the visibility of East European exhibitions

11.15 Coffee

11.45 Visuality as a battle field of the Cold War
chair: Augusta Dimou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Eckhart Gillen (Berlin)
Andrzej Wróblewski: Art between Modernism and Socialist Realism in the early Cold War

Adrienn Kácsor (Northwestern University Chicago)
From Socialist Realism towards Socialist Universalism: A Hungarian experiment with state-sponsored painting

13.15 Buffet lunch

15.00 Submerged visualities
chair: Beata Hock (GWZO Leipzig)

Angelika Richter (Berlin)
"Revolution and Erotics." Heike Stephan – Performance Art and Intermediality

Erwin Kessler (Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest)
Art mass: Religious art in Romania after 1989

16.30 Farewell