Day 1
Thursday, 15 February
14:30 – 15:00 Registration
15:00 Welcome and Introduction: Barbara Lange (Tübingen)
Young Scholars’ Forum
Moderation: Marcel Finke (Tübingen)
15:10 Marcela Hanácková (Zurich): How Socialist Realism Rocked Modernism. On Purists, Reformers and Radicals at the CIAM Bergamo Congress in 1949
15:50 Agata Pietrasik (Berlin): Art in Crisis: Rebuilding Modernism in the Aftermath of War
Refreshment Break
17:00 Patricia García-Monton Gonzales (Madrid): Europe and the Baroque through the Old Paths of Unity
17:40 Elisabeth Ansel (Dresden): “Emancipated from Provincial Myth” (Herbert Read, A Letter to a Young Painter): Irish Modernism and Its European Reception between the Poles of Art and Politics
19:00 Buffet Reception at Kunsthistorisches Institut Tübingen
Day 2
Friday, 16 February
9:30 Welcome: Tanja Zimmermann (Leipzig)
9:45 Panel I. Traditions and Innovations
Chair: Christian Fuhrmeister (Munich)
10:00 Agata Jakubowska (Poznan): All-Women Art Initiatives in the Aftermath of World War II
10:30 Hildegard Frübis (Berlin): Europe as Transit – Jewish Remembrance and the Photographs of Roman Vishniac from the 1940s and 1950s
Refreshment Break
11:30 Evá Forgács (Pasadena): Shaping a Narrative of a New Internationalism in Art: Willem Sandberg and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1945–1957
Discussion
Lunch
14:00 Panel II. Matters of Form
Chair: Arnold Bartetzky (Leipzig)
14:10 Dirk Hildebrandt (Cologne): The Politics of Modification. Asger Jorn and a Network of European Post-War Art
14:40 Barbara Lange (Tübingen): Back to the Roots and Open for Experiments at the Same Time: Asger Jorn’s Concept of Ceramics as a Way to Reform European Civilization
Refreshment Break
15:40 Tanja Zimmermann (Leipzig): Post-Colonial Art History for Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned States? Oto Bihalji-Merin and the Concept of “Naïve” Art
Discussion
Refreshment Break
17:00 Panel III. Entanglements
Chair: Marina Dmitrieva (Leipzig)
17:10 Ljiljana Kolesnik (Zagreb): Negotiating Cold War Divisions – International Artist Networks of the 1950s and Yugoslav Practices of Cultural Exchange
17:40 Pedro Lapa (Lisbon): A Particularity in the Portuguese Case
Discussion
Day 3
Saturday, 17 February
9:30 Panel IV: Prospects for Further Researches
Chair: Barbara Lange (Tübingen)
9:40 Christian Fuhrmeister and Barbara Murovec (Munich/Ljubljana): Inversions in Slovenia 1941–1954
10:00 Regina Wenninger (Munich): Polish Abstract Art in Western German Art Discourses of the late 1950s. A Historiographical Test Case
Refreshment Break
11:00 Thomas Thiemeyer (Tübingen): Cosmopolitanizing Colonial Memories in Berlin. The Humboldt Forum and the Current Shift in Germany’s Culture of Remembrance
Discussion