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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