“Weltweit vor Ort”: „Modernismen“ – Bericht über die transregionale Akademie São Paulo, 16. – 24. Juli 2016
Die im Juli 2016 veranstaltete transregionale Akademie „Modernismen. Konzepte, Kontexte, Zirkulationen“ geht aus einem neuen...
Die im Juli 2016 veranstaltete transregionale Akademie „Modernismen. Konzepte, Kontexte, Zirkulationen“ geht aus einem neuen...
(São Paulo, 16-24 July 2016) By Lena Bader and Thomas Kirchner The goal of the Academy was to enable an exchange among different countries and regions about concepts and variations…
Workshop: “Modernismos: conceitos – contextos – circulações” [program download] By Renan Varolli Thomas Kirchner, Lena Bader and Jens Baumgarten invited the group to a wrap-up of the “Modernisms” workweek, revisiting…
From the Sertão to São Paulo: Transregional Intersections in Brazilian Outsider Art at the Galeria Estação By Caroline Olivia M. Wolf A striking array of media and visual forms encapsulates…
On July 21st, the sixth day of the program, the participants and the steering group members of the Transregional Academy on “Modernisms: Concepts, Contexts, and Circulation” visited the Art Museum…
By Renan Varolli The fifth day of the Transregional Academy “Modernisms” included an afternoon excursion to the Contemporary Art Museum of the University of São Paulo (Museu de Arte Contemporânea…
On Saturday, July, 16, members of the steering group and academy participants got together and got to know each other at a pizza dinner in São Paulo. Fresh and well…
by Kristian Handberg São Paulo is a metropolis without one skyline. With its endless pattern of skyscrapers in all kind of formations its buildings draw many contours underneath the southern…
A Transnational History of Latin American Art in the Post-Colonial Era The aim of this project is to study the history of contemporary Latin American art (19th and 20th centuries)…
Constructivism as Construction: Brazilian Neoconcretism between Language and Object Bachmanns research project focuses on Brazilian Neoconcretism at the end of the 1950s and particularly on the movement’s interdisciplinarity. It consists…
The Print Donation from the Central Bank of Brazil to the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo Starting from a print collection donated by the Central…
The “Tree of Modern Art” as Prime Object or Replication? Miguel Covarrubias Between Art History and Anthropology Starting from the “Tree of Modern Art” by Miguel Covarrubias published in 1933…
Catherine David (Musée National d’Art Moderne/CCI, Centre Pompidou, Paris), Clémentine Deliss (Independent Curator/Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), Patrick Flores (University of the Philippines and the Vargas Museum, Manila), Anselm Franke (Haus der…
Danilo di Prete: Between Syndical Exhibitions in Italy and São Paulo Biennial of Art The project has as its main goal the case study of the Italian artist Danilo di…
A Tale of Two (University) Cities: The Modernist Campuses of Mexico City and Caracas in the Imaginary of Socialist Eastern Europe This project examines the Eastern European reception of two iconic…
Combiz Moussavi-Aghdam (Tehran/Berlin) held a lecture on “Modern Trends in Pre-revolutionary Iranian Art and the Question of Alternative Modernism” during the Annual Conference “Global Modernisms: Contiguities, Infrastructures and Aesthetics”, 5…
Re-Constructing Blackness in Brazil: Politics, Race, and Modernity in Brazilian Art and Architecture, 1950s-1980s Starting in the 1950s, the Brazilian government positioned itself as a leading economic partner for emerging,…