Socialist Realist Art

PROGRAMME

10.00: Coffee
10.15: Opening address
Anna Tellgren, Research leader, Moderna Museet

10.30-12.30
Panel 4: The Visual Language of Socialist Realism (Chair: Isabelle De Keghel)
Mike O’Mahony: A Winter’s Tale: Socialist Realism Out in the Cold
Robert Bird: The Scale Model in Soviet Visual Culture of the 1930s
Iina Kohonen: Cosmic Landscapes and the Art of Aleksei Leonov
Evgeny Dobrenko: Images of Hatred and Violence in Soviet Wartime Culture

13.45—15.15

Panel 5: Case Studies from Eastern Europe (Chair: Susan Reid)
Katerina Mohar: Socialist Realist Painting in the Former Socialist Republic of Slovenia
Jermome Bazin: Stakes and Challenges of a Social History of Socialist Realism: The Case Study of an East German Commission
Mirela Tanta: State Propaganda or Sites of Resistance?: Socialist Realism in Romania, 1970-89

15.30-17.00
Panel 6: Structures and Organisations of Soviet Art (Chair: TBC)
Iliana Veinberga: Latvian SSR Artists’ Union’s Art Collection: An Era in Paint, Paper and Concrete
Zhanara Nauruzbayeva: Socialist Realist Art in Kazakhstan
Galina Yankovskaya: Professional Identities and Social Practices of Soviet Artists in the 1930s-70s

17.15-18.30
Keynote 2 (Chair: Mark Bassin)
Introduction: Daniel Birnbaum, Director Moderna Museet
Boris Groys: Before and After Socialist Realism: Installations by El Lissitzky and Ilya Kabakov

Followed by;
Book presentation chaired by Sven-Olov Wallenstein