Modernism’s Future Pasts: Abstraction and Identity in "East-Central Europe," 1910–1930s

With partners in L’viv, the Universities of Tübingen and York, and the Museum of Art in Łódź, the project will organise a number of workshops, one of which will be held in Brno, from 2025 to 2027.

Its aim is to re-contextualize modernist art and its historiography by examining and critically reassessing the entrenched polarity between the perceived nationalism of folk practices and the universalism of the historical avant-garde in East-Central Europe.

The consortium has now published a call for expressions of interest from early and mid-career scholars and curators of twentieth-century art in the region.

The call has been published by the Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture. More details can be found on the H-SHERA notice board here:

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20058294/call-participants-modernisms-future-pasts-abstraction-and-identity