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26/4/2002

Arteast 2000+

ZKM_Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

Art from Eastern Europe.
Selected Works from the Collection of the Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Exhibition curators: Badovinac Zdenka, Weibel Peter

International Collection Arteast 2000+ keeps traveling The exhibition of the selected works for the international and national collections of Moderna galerija, entitled The Art of Eastern Europe, will be presented in ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie) in Karlsruhe (Germany), Foyer Kubus, 28 April - 26 May 2002

Concept
Moderna galerija (Museum of Modern Art) Ljubljana began to assemble its international collection Arteast 2000+ in the nineties, a time following major local and political changes. The purpose of the collection is manifold: constituting works mainly by Eastern European artists, it means that the Museum of Modern Art has created a new dimension to its activities, i.e. it wishes to present Eastern European art, which has been overlooked until now, to establish a dialogue between Eastern and Western European artists and in this way create a new, different view on the development of art in the second half of the twentieth century.

For a long time Eastern European art after the Second World War was completely identified with the official aesthetics of socialist realism. However, when the world started to take a greater interest in Eastern European art, as a consequence of the political changes in the last ten years, the East began to feel the need for a re-evaluation of its history. Those artists who have already attracted the attention of the international public are almost exclusively heirs to classic avant-garde movements and, as such, are representatives of conceptual art. The aesthetic of their work does not follow the maxims of conventional media and continues the legacy of conceptualism developed in the early 20th century by one of the most important 20th century artists, Marcel Duchamp. The simplest definition of conceptualism refers to works which give precedence to the artist's idea over the object as such. This definition gave rise to a broad variety of art practices based on new media which developed in the 1960s: performance, video art, installations, and the like. For more than 15 years these new forms of conceptualism have dominated major art exhibitions all over the world. Because this art was consistently provocative and socially critical in the East, it is not surprising that official histories bypassed and excluded it from official collections. Moreover, they even directly opposed it, so that it could develop only as a marginal and unofficial practice. Given the right conditions, it could win general recognition in international circles; this has already been proved by individual Eastern European artists who, with considerable personal effort and without any outside help, have emerged as some of the greatest stars of the international art scene. The international collection is based on the works of artists who already have international references. These are combined with other works, also interesting and of high quality, by still unrecognised authors, who represent a real revelation to the international art world.
The Arteast 2000+ collection is not only a museum collection in the sense of already established history but a collection in the sense of a space in the museum as a laboratory, revealing and developing different contexts in which contemporary art is being created. The Arteast 2000+ collection not only follows the norms of globalisation but also offers its own form of globalisation. This, of course, is the most effective way to become an equal part of the world as a global unit.

Opening: Saturday, 27 April 2002 at 5 p.m.

more information on the artists on http://www.2000p.org

Image: a work of Albert Jury

The same exhibition was shown in Orangerie Congress Innsbruck in November

ZKM
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Foyer Kubus

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