Lecture by Dr Klara Kemp-Welch, art historian Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Welcome: Holger Otten (curator, Ludwig Forum Aachen), moderation: Galina Dekova (research trainee, Ludwig Forum Aachen)
Thursday, November 28, 2024, 7pm
In her lecture Free Movement? Migration and Mobility in Eastern Europe through the lens of contemporary art, Klara Kemp-Welch introduces her new research on contemporary artists who work on questions relating to migration and mobility in the East European context. It will be structured around the themes of labour mobility, minority experience, and border politics. Kemp-Welch will argue that artists are uniquely placed to examine the lived complexities of free movement and to offer critical insights into Eastern Europe as a social, economic and political frontline.
The lecture will be held in English.
Klara Kemp-Welch is an art historian who works on modern and contemporary art from Eastern Europe at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 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 on migration and mobility in Eastern Europe, as seen through the lens of contemporary art.
Image: Eleonore de Montesquiou, Eksperiment Katya (still), 2020. Courtesy of the artist.
