Colloque : « Entangled Art Histories between Germany and the United States, 1960-1990: Production, Diffusion, Reception » (Bruxelles, 9-11 novembre 2023)

Colloque : « Entangled Art Histories between Germany and the United States, 1960-1990: Production, Diffusion, Reception » (Bruxelles, 9-11 novembre 2023)

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9-11 novembre 2023, Wiels, Bruxelles

colloque international organisé par Valérie Mavridorakis, (Sorbonne Université), Alexander Streitberger (Université catholique de Louvain), Erik Verhagen (Université de Lille)depliant web

9 Nov. 2023

14:00              Valérie Mavridorakis (Sorbonne Université, Paris), Alexander Streitberger (Université catholique de Louvain), Erik Verhagen (Université de Lille): Reception and Introduction

Session 1: Entangled Receptions

 Chair: Valérie Mavridorakis

14:30                         Alexander Alberro (Columbia University, New York City): Artists, Critique, and the New York-Cologne Axis in the 1980s and 1990s

15:15                         Stefano Agresti (La Sapienza University of Rome): Network as an Expansion Strategy. Robert Barry and the Development of Artistic Relations of the Galerie Paul Maenz in Cologne

16:00                          Coffee break

16:15                         Erik Verhagen (Université de Lille): 1967-1973: Franz Erhard Walther in New York

17:00                         Anja Isabel Schneider (Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha): First exhibitions at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York: A dialogue between American and European artists

17:45                          End of the day

 

10 Nov. 2023

Session 2: Travel Pragmatics and Exhibition Politics

Chair: Holde Van Gelder (KU Leuven)

9:30                            Gregor Stemmrich (New York University Abu Dhabi): The Trouble With/Travel of Rauschenberg’s Bed – The Museum of Modern Art and documenta II

10:15                         Felix Vogel (University of Kassel): ²If it is possible, it is best if you bring your work yourself²: Infrastructure, Logistics, Production at documenta

11:00                          Coffee break

11:15                         Sabeth Buchmann (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna): Infrastructural economies of travel and transport in post-conceptual art of the 1970s and 1980s. The example of the neo-narrative film essay

12:00                          Lunch break

13:15                          Visit of the exhibition at Wiels

 

Session 3: Artistic Strategies

 Chair: Gregory H. Williams (Boston University)

14:30                         Alexander Streitberger (UCL): Must Art Hang? Andrea Fraser and Exhibition Strategies in Germany

15:15                         Althea Ruoppo (Boston University): Reinhard Mucha and the Place of Industrial Transnationalism in Assemblage Sculpture: The Wirtschaftswunder (The Economic Miracle), To the People of Pittsburgh

16:00                          Coffee break

16:15                         Stefaan Vervoort (Gent University/Henry Moore Institute, Leeds): Schütte’s Amerika, 1975

17:00                         Dirk Snauwaert (director of the Wiels): Critical Distances – Retrospective with Munich Specifics of the Post First Iraq War in German and US Art Relations 1996-2001

17:45                          End of day

 

Saturday 11.11.2023

Session 4: East-West Circulations and Vice Versa

Chair: Felix Vogel (University of Kassel)

9:30                            Nóra Lukács (Humboldt Universität Berlin): Charles Simonds exhibiting at Jürgen Schweinebraden’s ‘EP Galerie’ in East Berlin 1977. The collaboration of a private art institution in the GDR with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in West Berlin

 10:15                         Annabel Ruckdeschel (University of Giessen): North American Artists at the GDR’s INTERGRAFIK Exhibitions “For Peace, Friendship, and Anti-Imperialist Solidarity” (1965-1990)

11:00                         Coffee break

11:15                         Claudia Mesch (Arizona State University): Charles W. White in East Berlin: Progressive Art History and the Limits of Socialist Solidarity in the German Democratic Republic, 1951-1978

12:00                         Gregory H. Williams (Boston University): Belated Recognition: US Critical Reception of East German Art in the 1980s

12:45                          Final discussion

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