Maja and Reuben Fowkes
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Maja and Reuben Fowkes are curators and art historians working from Budapest and London whose work focuses on the theory and aesthetics of East European art from the art production of the socialist era to contemporary artistic responses to the transformations brought by globalisation. Their work and publications are indexed at:Translocal.org
They are members of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT) and the International Association of Art Critics
(AICA). In 2010 their activities were recognised with a grant from the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory http://www.igorzabelassociation.org/en/award_2010
Budapest,. An interview with Maja and Reuben Fowkes about their work on issues of sustainability and contemporary art was published in summer 2009 in Antennae Journal They have lectured widely on art and ecology including at Modern Art Oxford
, Barbican Gallery and Aarhus Kunstbygning
, recent publications including Reclaim Happiness: Art and Ecology Unbound in Artecontexto (summer 2010).
Their publications on East European art include From Post-Communism to Post-Transition: Art in Eastern Europe in The Art Book http://www.aah.org.uk/page/2845 (February 2009) and a special issue of Third Text Third Text
on Socialist Eastern Europe.. Texts dealing with the legacy of Socialist Realism include You Only Live Twice: the Strange Afterlife of Socialist Realist Sculpture
Their extensive work on cosmopolitanism and the post-national in contemporary East European art resulted in a paper on The Possibility of the Post-National in Contemporary East European Art at the College Art Association College Art Association
conference of 2010 and an article on The Post-National in East European Art: From Socialist Internationalism to Transnational Communities.
They are members of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT) and the International Association of Art Critics
International Association of Art Critics
The International Association of Art Critics was founded in 1950 to revitalize critical discourse, which suffered under Fascism during World War II. AICA was initially affiliated with UNESCO as a non-governmental organization...
(AICA). In 2010 their activities were recognised with a grant from the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory http://www.igorzabelassociation.org/en/award_2010
Sustainable art
They have contributed signficantly to the development of recent thinking on sustainability and contemporary art, through their published writings, curated exhibitions and organisation of conferences. Since 2006 they have organised an annual Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art at Central European UniversityCentral European University
For other uses, see European University Central European University is a graduate-level, English-language university offering degrees in the social sciences, humanities, law, public policy, business management, environmental science, and mathematics...
Budapest,. An interview with Maja and Reuben Fowkes about their work on issues of sustainability and contemporary art was published in summer 2009 in Antennae Journal They have lectured widely on art and ecology including at Modern Art Oxford
Modern Art Oxford
Modern Art Oxford is an art gallery established in 1965 in Oxford, England. From 1965 to 2002, it was called The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.-Foundation:...
, Barbican Gallery and Aarhus Kunstbygning
Aarhus Kunstbygning
Aarhus kunstbygning or the Aarhus Art Building is an art museum in Aarhus, in Denmark.It has 1000 square metres of exhibition halls making it one of Denmark’s largest and significant venues for contemporary art...
, recent publications including Reclaim Happiness: Art and Ecology Unbound in Artecontexto (summer 2010).
Revolution trilogy
Their curated exhibitions include Revolution is not a Garden Party, which dealt with the legacy of the 1956 Revolution for contemporary art and was held at Trafo Gallery Budapest, Norwich Gallery and Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic in Zagreb in 2006-7. The second part of their revolution trilogy is Revolution I Love You: 1968 in Art, Politics and Philosophy which was shown at the Centre for Contemporary Art Thessaloniki in summer 2008, as well as Trafo Gallery Budapest and International Project Space Birmingham. Revolutionary Decadence: Foreign Artists in Budapest since 1989 completed the trilogy and was shown at Kiscell Museum Budapest in November 2009.East European art
A major focus of their work is on researching contemporary East European art. Since 2006 they have organised the SocialEast Forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe to examines how 'a revised understanding of the achievements and circumstances of East European art impact on global interpretations of art history'http://www.socialeast.org/. This has involved holding SocialEast Seminars at the Ludwig Museum Budapest, Manchester Art Gallery, Jagiellonian University Krakow, Mimara Museum Zagreb and Courtauld Institute London.Their publications on East European art include From Post-Communism to Post-Transition: Art in Eastern Europe in The Art Book http://www.aah.org.uk/page/2845 (February 2009) and a special issue of Third Text Third Text
Third Text
Third Text is a bimonthly academic journal on art in global context. After founder and editor Rasheed Araeen's earlier art magazine Black Phoenix, started in 1978, published only three issues, it was relaunched as a theoretical art journal in 1987...
on Socialist Eastern Europe.. Texts dealing with the legacy of Socialist Realism include You Only Live Twice: the Strange Afterlife of Socialist Realist Sculpture
Their extensive work on cosmopolitanism and the post-national in contemporary East European art resulted in a paper on The Possibility of the Post-National in Contemporary East European Art at the College Art Association College Art Association
College Art Association
The College Art Association of America is the principal professional association in the United States for practitioners and scholars of art, art history, and art criticism...
conference of 2010 and an article on The Post-National in East European Art: From Socialist Internationalism to Transnational Communities.