Modernism and the Spectres of the Past in Piłsudski’s Poland

I gave this lecture in New York at the Bard Graduate Centre in 2018 at a symposium on Revivalism in … More

Flickering Self-Portraits

This essay appeared in Mari Laanemets’ excellent Abstraction as an Open Experiment issued by Tallinn Art Hall / Estonian Academy … More

How socmodernist buildings became landmarks … again.

This lecture was given at the Kaunas Architecture Festival (KAFe) in November 2019. The theme of the event was the … More

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

Notes from the Underground at Akademie der Kunste, Berlin (March-May 2018)

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