Lecture • November 15, 2024

Free Movement? Migration and Mobility in Eastern Europe through the Lens of Contemporary Art

The Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Art and the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design within the “George Enescu” National University of Arts from Iași organized, on November 15, 2024, the public lecture Free Movement? Migration and Mobility in Eastern Europe through the Lens of Contemporary Art given by Klara Kemp-Welch (Courtauld Institute of Art in London, United Kingdom).

Klara Kemp-Welch works on modern and contemporary art from Eastern Europe. She was educated at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and University College London. She is the author of Antipolitics in Central European Art. Reticence as Dissidence under Post-Totalitarian Rule 1956-1989 (IB Tauris, 2014), Networking the Bloc. Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965-1981 (MIT Press, 2019) and co-editor of A Reader in East-Central European Modernism 1918-1956 with Beata Hock and Jonathan Owen (Courtauld Books Online, 2019). She is currently completing a monograph entitled Free Movement? Migration and Mobility in Eastern Europe through the Lens of Contemporary Art.

Public lecture coordinated by PhD. Prof. Cristian Nae, within the project InterArt. European values and standards in artistic education and research from UNAGE Iași, funded by The National Council for Financing Higher Education in Romania through the Institutional Development Fund CNFIS-FDI-2024-F-0367.