INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM WILL ADDRESS THE PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY ART RESTORATION
On the occasion of the exhibition ELEVACE Zděnek Beran: Rehabilitation Department of Dr. Dr., the Central European Forum Olomouc and the National Gallery in Prague invite you to participate in an international colloquium dedicated to the preservation and presentation of works from the context of contemporary art.
The meeting is intended for practitioners, restorers, conservators, curators and art historians or anthropologists specializing specifically in the field of contemporary art, problematic materials and ephemeral art forms. However, it has a natural historical dimension – the question of preservation, reconstruction or presentation of art environments cannot, of course, be limited to the last few decades. Trends associated with the material turn on the one hand. The performative turn on the other, the rise of poststructuralist strategies, as well as the increasingly complex rethinking of relations between individual actors across scholarly discourses, are generalizing and developing the field of art history in ways that have obvious and direct implications for a range of social practices or practices.
the Rehabilitation Department of Dr. Dr.
On the occasion of the exhibition ELEVACE Zděnek Beran: Rehabilitation Department of Dr. Dr., the Central European Forum Olomouc and the National Gallery in Prague invite you to participate in an international colloquium dedicated to the preservation and presentation of works from the context of contemporary art.
The meeting is intended for practitioners, restorers, conservators, curators and art historians or anthropologists specializing specifically in the field of contemporary art, problematic materials and ephemeral art forms. However, it has a natural historical dimension – the question of preservation, reconstruction or presentation of art environments cannot, of course, be limited to the last few decades. Trends associated with the material turn on the one hand. The performative turn on the other, the rise of poststructuralist strategies, as well as the increasingly complex rethinking of relations between individual actors across scholarly discourses, are generalizing and developing the field of art history in ways that have obvious and direct implications for a range of social practices or practices.
the Rehabilitation Department of Dr. Dr.
BETWEEN ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL DISASTER
Problems of conservation and restoration in the context of contemporary art
Olomouc Museum of Art-Central European Forum + National Gallery Prague
online workshop on the CEAD platform: 19.4.2024
BETWEEN ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL DISASTER
Problems of conservation and restoration in the context of contemporary art
Olomouc Museum of Art-Central European Forum + National Gallery Prague
online workshop on the CEAD platform: 19.4.2024
The imaginary motto of the meeting is one of the first complex environments created in the Central European space, the Rehabilitation Department of Dr. Dr., created in his studio at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s by Czech painter and visual artist, a member of the unofficial scene and later professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Zdeněk Beran (1937-2014). The work, on the borderline between installation, sculptural realisation and abstracted spatial painting, went through three dramatic phases with an almost biblical subtext: it was placed in a grave (1993-1994), then removed (1997) and reinstalled in a museum setting (2000/ 2023). It is precisely this symbolic “elevation”, i.e. not only physical but also meaningful preservation in the actual space-time, imagination and mentality, that is the key condition for the existence of an artwork.
Due to the importance of such interdisciplinary meetings, which offer the opportunity to view a given topic or realisation from multiple perspectives, the programme is divided into two stages – the first meeting will take place online at the Central European Database in April 2024, the second will then be organised taking into account the results obtained and the degree of synergies. The aim is to create a vibrant and functional network, capable of responding to the challenges faced by specific institutions or individuals. The long-established New Media Museums programme, focusing on new media art and working with advanced technologies, is a model for this.
programme
13.00
opening remarks + Barbora Kundračíková and Dunja Stevanovic: Zdeněk Beran: Rehabilitation Department Dr. Dr.
13.40
Klára Velíšková: The Artist Interview EX POST (discussion + short break)
14.20
Maja Rogovska: Exploring the documentation and preservation challenges associated with contemporary art crafted from unconventional materials, using Jonasz Stern’s artwork
14:40
Anna Cecylia Brzóstowicz and Sławomir Adam Kamiński: FIRE! New conservation strategies for artworks containing fire, on the example of selected works by Władysław Hasior exhibited in museum interiors. (discussion + short break)
15.20
Anna Olszewska: RE:Senster
15.40
Patricia Falcao: Acquiring Jordan Wolfson’s Colored Sculpture (discussion + short break)
16.20
Valentina Gamberi: Decay and European collections of Chinese artefacts: Rethinking Curatorship
16.40
Jana Horáková: Curating a live archive on the ruins of video art: the case of the Vasulka Live Archive (discussion)
THE COLLOQUIUM WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE ZOOM PLATFORM, PLEASE REGISTER FOR PASSIVE PARTICIPATION AT SEFO@MUO.CZ. A RECORDING OF THE MEETING WILL BE PUBLISHED EX POST ON THE CEAD.SPACE WEBSITE.