In 1986 Tamás Király arranged for his latest collection to be photographed on the steps of the Műcsarnok, the kunsthalle … More
Category: Eastern Europe
The Peasant in the City
This piece was written for a Zacheta show, Polska – kraj folkloru? You can download the catalogue in English here. … More
Notes from the Underground
In September, Daniel Muzyczuk and I curated a show entitled ‘Notes from the Underground’ for the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz … More
Modernism Redux
In October 1993, Charles Jencks, the leading advocate of architectural postmodernism, was guest of honour at an international conference and … More
The Future is Between Your Legs: Sex, Art and Censorship in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
This is a draft version of a text which will be published by Nottingham Contemporary in 2016. In … More
Hasior’s Dreck
This essay is a transcript of a talk given in Zakopane in late 2014. It will appear in a … More
Interview with Herito magazine
In May Herito published an interview with me on socmodernist architecture in Eastern Europe – you can read it here.
Staging for the End of History: Avant-garde Visions at the Beginning and the End of Communism in Eastern Europe
In 1967 Stanislav Kolibal, the Czech artist, was commissioned to design the August-September cover of Výtvarné Uměni (Fine Arts) (fig … More
A Little Music: Sound Works by Wojciech Bruszewski
This essay will appear in 2015 in a book reviewing the work of artist Wojciech Bruszewski. In 1982 Wojciech Bruszewski … More
Empty Plots – Art and Environment in Latvia in the 1970s
This short essay was written for a publication accompanying the Visionary Structures exhibition at BOZAR, Brussels, opening in January 2015. … More
