This lecture was given at the Kaunas Architecture Festival (KAFe) in November 2019. The theme of the event was the … More
Category: Eastern Europe
Space in Socialist and Postsocialist Cities – Divided or Shared?
This short essay was published in Helene Doudova, ed., Shared Cities Atlas. Post-socialist Cities and Active Citizenship in Central … More
Punky Samizdat
This essay was written for the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts in 2019 curated by Slavs and Tatars. ‘Idiots … More
On Fashion and Revolution
This short text was commissioned by the curators of Left Performance Histories, a pioneering and thought-provoking exhibition at NGBK, Berlin … More
To Rend and To Sew
This essay was published in a catalogue accompanying Beata Ewa Białecka’s 2018 Ave Kobieta exhibition at the National Gallery in Gdansk. … More
On Andrzej Klimowski
This essay was commissioned for a new book on the posters of Andrzej Klimowski published by Self-Made Hero in 2018. … More
Dan Perjovschi: The Power of the Margins
A piece written in 2010 …. The international art world ‘discovered’ Dan Perjovschi in 1999 when his drawings were … More
Études with a camera – Dóra Maurer’s films and photoworks
What can one do with a cobblestone? This was a question asked and answered by Dóra Maurer in 1971. … More
‘Consumer Art’ and Other Commodity Aesthetics in Eastern Europe under Communist Rule
This essay was written for a book which was published by Centrum Sztuki Nowoczesnej in Warsaw in January 2017. … More
Király’s Immoderate Fashion
In 1986 Tamás Király arranged for his latest collection to be photographed on the steps of the Műcsarnok, the kunsthalle … More