How East German artists made their country's experimental art scene a form of (counter)
public life. Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not …

Communism's Public Sphere explores the political role of cultural spaces in the Eastern
Bloc. Under communist regimes that banned free speech, political discussions shifted to …

Polish-born artist Ewa Partum is considered a pioneer of Central-Eastern European feminist
art produced within the conceptual idiom. Her work can also be divided chronologically into …

In the last twenty-five years, the explosive rise of car mobility has transformed street life in
postsocialist cities. Whereas previously the social fabric of these cities ran on socialist …

Aus deren Perspektive ist» das Bild «nur ein Element im Gefüge visueller Kulturen, das sich
über Verhältnisse räumlicher und visueller Ordnungen, in den besonderen Verknüpfungen …

This article discusses the specific case of the surveillance by the Securitate, the Romanian
secret police, of artists who engaged in performance art (body art, action art, live art) during …

This poem, written by a provincial believer, introduces us to the world of the unregistered
Evangelical Christians-Baptists of the late Soviet period. Traditionally, the identity of this …

In order to evaluate the significance of performance art in the former commu-nist countries of
Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, it is important to consider the development of …

It is not well known that in the context of the unofficial artistic and philosophical scene of the
ČSSR there was an aesthetically refined and theoretically differentiated reflection on the …

Karolina Majewska-Güde is a researcher, art critic, and curator. She works as an assistant
professor at the Institute of History and Theory of Art at Katholische Privat-Universität Linz …