RUSSIAN ART: CHANGING PERCEPTIONS
Russian Art and Culture Group, Second Graduate Workshop
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
Conference Room, Research IV, June 4–5, 2015
Attendance Fee: €15, binding registration by June 2

Thursday, June 4

10.00 Opening
Welcome Address, Prof. Dr. Isabel Wünsche

Russian Art of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Tradition and Modernism
Chair: Rebecca Wichmann

10.30 Between the Frontiers: Valentin Serov by Russian, Soviet and Western Critics
Tanja Malycheva, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster/MSU, Moscow

11.00 “You are the only hope…”: Changing the Perception of Russian Printmaking in the Late Nineteenth Century
Dr. Galina Mardilovich, independent researcher, Cambridge

11.30 Fairy Tales in Russian Painting of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Ludmila Piters-Hofmann, Humboldt University Berlin

12.00 The Discourse on Pictorial Photography in Russia at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Nadezhda Stanulevich, independent researcher, St. Petersburg

12.30 Discussion

13.00 Lunch

Russian Art Exhibitions: Intentions and Interpretations
Chair: Tanja Malycheva

14.30 The Russian Pavilion at the International Exhibition in Rome in 1911: Some Aspects of the Internal Discourse
Svetlana Babadzhan, State Institute for Art Studies, Moscow

15.00 Political Aspects of the Perception and Reception of the Russian Avant-Garde: Exhibitions in Germany in 1921 and 1922
Natalia Kroll, Aby-Warburg-Stiftung/Universität Hamburg

15.30 Discussion

16.00 Coffee Break

16.30 New Art Perceived the Old Way: 1930s Exhibitions of Socialist Realism abroad
Marija Podzorova, University Paris 7 – Paris Diderot (History)/University Paris 1 – Paris Sorbonne (history of art)

17.00 The Soviet Art Exhibition at the Institute of Art Propaganda in Warsaw in 1933: The Reception of Soviet Artistic and Political Ideas by Polish Avant-Garde Groups (1933–1937)
Agnieszka Dul?b, Institute of Art History, Warsaw University

17.30 Exhibiting Russia: Revising, Reframing and Reinterpreting the Russian Avant-Garde
Dr. Roann Barris, Chair and Professor, Art Department, Radford University

18.00 Discussion

19.00 Dinner (not included)

Friday, June 5

Contemporary Russia I
Chair: Rebecca Wichmann

10.00 Perceptions of (Soviet-) Russian Art in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Ilya Kabakov as an Exceptional and Epitome Phenomenon
Olga Keller, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

10.30 Blasphemy as a Tool for Institutional Critique: Discrepancies Between Secular and Orthodox Readings of Blasphemy in the Work of Russian Political Performance Art
Darja Filippova, Central European University, Budapest

11.00 Chto Delat? Art Activism in Russia from the Perspective of its Transnational Perception
Sebastian Mühl, University of Art and Design Offenbach/Main

11.30 The Perception of Russian Art Brut in Western Europe
Dina Filatova, Department of Art History, European University, St. Petersburg

12.00 Discussion
13.00 Lunch

Contemporary Russia II
Chair: Tanja Malycheva

14.30 The Accidental Nature of Independent Art: A Look at Contemporary Russian Artists From the Cube-Shaped Luda Gallery
Roberta Sala, University of Torino

15.00 Ostalgia as a Special Artistic Development in Contemporary Art
Natalia Drobot, visual artist, Provincial University College of Fine Art, Hasselt

15.30 To Cannes with Love: Russian Movies and Russian Critics at the International Film Festival
Dr. Marina Toropygina, Russian State University of Cinematography, Moscow

16.00 Discussion and Closing Note