Fig. 1 - A photograph of the Museum of Contemporary Art – Skopje in the 1970s
Speakers: María Berríos MACBA, Barcelona), Aleksei Borisionok (Biennale Matter of Art 2024), Rado Ištok (National Gallery Prague), Magda Lipska (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw), Bojana Piškur (Moderna galerija, Ljubljana), Jovanka Popova, Museum of Contemporary Art – Skopje), Rasha Salti (independent curator, Marseille), Eszter Szakács (independent curator, Amsterdam) and Miloslav Vorlíček (Lidice Art Collection)
Join us for an international two-day symposium, Art & Solidarity: No Feeling Is Final. Symposium in the National Gallery Prague and the Lidice Gallery, on Saturday, 21 September and Sunday, 22 September 2024, respectively.
Art & Solidarity: No Feeling Is Final. Symposium explores the complex histories of solidarity art collections during the Cold War and their relevance today. The symposium accompanies the exhibition „No Feeling Is Final.“ on view at the National Gallery Prague and Lidice Art Collection.
Programme:
Saturday, 21 September 2024, 14:00–17:30 / Trade Fair Palace, National Gallery in Prague
The first day of the symposium will focus on three historical solidarity collections established in the 1960s and 1970s: the Skopje solidarity collection, which is the subject of the exhibition No Feeling Is Final at the National Gallery in Prague and the Lidice Gallery, the collection for the Museo de la Solidaridad (Museum of Solidarity) in Chile, and the collection intended for a future "museum in solidarity" for Palestine. A Q&A will follow the presentations.
14:00 - Guided tour of No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection with the curator Rado Ištok (First floor)
15:30 - Coffee break (Korzo)
16:00 Art and Solidarity. Part 1: Solidarity Art Collections (Korzo)
Jovanka Popova (Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje): All That Happened Will Happen Today. Museum of Contemporary Art – Skopje and its Solidarity Collection
María Berríos (MACBA, Barcelona): "Struggle as Culture". The Museum of Solidarity, 1971–1973
Rasha Salti (independent curator, Marseille): Past Disquiet. The International Art Exhibition for Palestine, 1978
17:00 - Discussion and Q&A
Day 1 is organised with the support of the Instituto Cervantes in Prague.
Sunday, 22 September 2024, 14:00–17:30 / Lidice Gallery, Lidice Memorial
The symposium's second day will explore various forms of grassroots and state-managed solidarity movements and campaigns during the Cold War. It will address the relations between socialist Europe, the Global South, and beyond from the perspectives of the former Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Poland. A Q&A will follow the presentations.
14:00 - Guided tours of the exhibition No Feeling Is Final. Works on Paper from Skopje and Lidice Solidarity Collections with the curator Miloslav Vorlíček and of Nikita Kadan’s curatorial intervention in the Lidice Art Collection (as part of the Biennale Matter of Art 2024) with the curator Aleksei Borisionok
15:30 - Coffee break
16:00 - Art and Solidarity. Part 2: Cold War Solidarities
Bojana Piškur (Moderna galerija, Ljubljana): Solidarities within the Non-Aligned Movement
Eszter Szakács (independent curator, Amsterdam): Cold War Solidarities. State-Managed and Grassroots, or the Question of the Archive
Magda Lipska (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw): Hope Is of a Different Color. From the Global South to the Lodz Film School
17:00 Discussion and Q&A
