CFP: Avant-Garde and Migration (Stockholm University, 2-4 Sept 2026)
The 2026 conference theme ‘Avant-Garde and Migration’ highlights migration as a key concept of historical as well as current relevance. Migration may be understood in geographical and sociopolitical terms, addressing the migrating actors…
CFP: Making a living, making art – Wage labour, class, and the female avant-garde, 1920–1948 (Bremen, 15-16 May 25)
Central Europe’s modernist movements in the twentieth century have widely been accepted as middle-class phenomena, driven by figures with the education, time, and financial resources to devote themselves to creative production. Yet, as…
EXH: Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde (NYU, Grey Art Museum, 1 Oct 2024 – 1 Mar 2025)
Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde surveys the groundbreaking career of the first woman modern art dealer. Berthe Weill (1865–1951) championed many fledgling masters of modern art early…
EXH: Castaway Modernism: Basel’s Acquisitions of “Degenerate“ Art (Kunstmuseum Basel, 22 Oct 2022 – 19 Feb 2023)
The Kunstmuseum Basel’s department of classic modernism houses one of the most prestigious collections of its kind. It was in fact assembled at a comparatively late date. In the summer of 1939 — shortly before the…
CFP: Internationaler Expressionismus – gestern und heute (Expressionismus 17/2023, ed. by Kristin Eichhorn and Johannes S. Lorenzen)
Der Expressionismus scheint als Bewegung uneingeschränkt mit Deutschland verbunden zu sein, sowohl in Hinblick auf Topoi der Malerei und Kunst als auch hinsichtlich ästhetischer Konventionen literarischer Werke. Auch in Bezug auf traditionelle und…
CFP: Globalising the Avant-Garde. The 8th Conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (Lisbon, NOVA FCSH, 1-3 September 2022)
The conference will reflect on the process of the globalisation of avant-gardes in the arts and literature, and on the situation of artistic avant-gardes in the context of globalisation more generally – technologically, economically,…