35 years into the post-socialist transition in Europe, images of the “former East” are often still rendered in shades of gray. Only recently, Cold War scholarship is beginning to move away from a view of two monolithic opposing blocs, instead exploring the concept of alternate or parallel modernities rather than the idea of lack and lag in the former Eastern bloc. To add color to these images, explore the ruptures and permeability of the “Iron Curtain” and blast apart pre-conceptions, the group exhibition EastUnBloc presents subversive and experimental media art works and practices by more than two dozen artists and collectives from socialist and transition-era Central and Eastern Europe as well as the production contexts in which they were created. Beyond presentation, the exhibition seeks to reclaim these works, as “artistic intelligence”: inspiration and toolkits to respond to current challenges.
Image gallery
With contributions by: Sarah Alberti, Zemira Alajbegović & Neven Korda, Art Servers Unlimited, Tilman Baumgärtel, Andreas Broeckmann, Radúz Činčera / Alena Činčerová, C.U.K.T., D’epog, Aleksandra Domanović, Eclectic Tech Carnival, Davide Grassi, Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid, Gusztáv Hámos, Tereza Havlíková, Benjamin Heidersberger, Mike Hentz, Brendan Howell, Infermental, Laibach, Dalibor Martinis, MetaForum, Monoskop, Pneuma Szöv. / TV Free Europe, Pneuma Vizuál, Lucia Repašská, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Sakrowski, Satori, Slovak Game Developers Association / Slovak Design Museum, Igor Štromajer, Szilárd Matusik, Vákuum TV (Dóra Csernatony, Kristóf Forgács, Dániel Garas, Donáta Gajzágó, László Kistamás, Attila Till), Van Gogh TV / Piazza Virtuale, Vašulka Kitchen Brno (Jennifer Helia DeFelice), Sabine Vogel & Mike Steiner, Krzysztof Wodiczko and many more
Exhibition design: Luca Szabados
nGbK work group: Dušan Barok, Zsuzsa Berecz, Friedemann Bochow, Natalie Gravenor, Sarah Günther
Funded by the German-Czech Fund for the Future
