International Conference on the First Russian Art Exhibition

International Conference on the First Russian Art Exhibition

The Russian Art & Culture Group would like to draw your attention to a forthcoming international conference on the First Russian Art Exhibition (Erste Russische Kunstausstellung) of 1922 in Berlin.

The international conference
100 Years of German-Russian Cultural Exchange:The First Russian Art Exhibition
will take place as a hybrid event on
October 15-16, 2021
in the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Saal, Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Potsdamer Straße
and online via Zoom.

The deadline for registration is October 10, 2021.
For an in-person participation, please register via e-mail.
Please use the Zoom-Online-Form for registering for remote participation.

See our website for more information and the program of the event.

See you in mid-October, in Berlin or on the screen!

Henriette Herz Scouting Program

Henriette Herz Scouting Program

We would like to draw your attention to the Henriette Herz Scouting Program.

The program is generally geared towards supporting promising young female researchers and scholars from regions which are usually not so well represented in the Western academic mainstream.

This opportunity is specifically for young female researchers in the discipline of art history from Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics or Caucasus, Central Asia or Siberia, etc. who work on modernism, abstraction, artists’ networks, and related topics.

 

Criteria for the program:

  • doctorate completed within the last 4 years (postdocs) or 12 years (researchers)
  • above-average publication record commensurate with career level
  • no post-doctoral research stays after completing doctorate, nor degrees/doctorates
    completed in Germany [conference participation is OK]
  • no German citizenship
  • good knowledge of German or English, depending on research proposal
  • the research fellowship should commence within 12 months of being granted
  • no previous applications nor previous sponsorship in any of the Foundation’s fellowship
    programs

 

If you are interested in the program, fulfill the criteria listed above, and want to be considered, please send your CV (no more than 2 pages), names/contacts of two references, list of publications along with your research proposal (2-3 pages) until August 15, 2021, to Prof. Dr. Isabel Wünsche i.wunsche@jacobs-university.de Potential candidates will be invited to present their research projects at a workshop in the fall.

Congratulations, Dr. Borkhardt!

Congratulations, Dr. Borkhardt!

The Russian Art & Culture Group would like to congratulate Sebastian Borkhardt for the publication of his PhD thesis on Wassily Kandinsky!

In „Der Russe Kandinsky“. Zur Bedeutung der russischen Herkunft Vasilij Kandinskijs für seine Rezeption in Deutschland, 1912-1945 [“The Russian Kandinsky”: On the Significance of Vasilii Kandinskii’s Russian Origin for His Reception in Germany, 1912-1945.] Sebastian discusses how Kandinsky’s work was perceived and discussed in Germany during the artist’s stay there.

We are delighted that this well-researched work is now available for the German reader and thankful for this enrichment of the scholarship on Russian art in Germany.

So, Congratulations! once again and the best of luck for your future projects, Dr. Sebastian Borkhardt!

Forthcoming Talk on Russian Art (Feb. 8th)

Forthcoming Talk on Russian Art (Feb. 8th)

The Russian Art & Culture Group would like to draw your attention to a forthcoming virtual talk on Russian art.

 

Margaret Samu (The New School’s Parsons School of Design)
is presenting her work on
Painters, the Art Market, and Images of Female Beauty in Russia, 1830-1860
on Monday February 8, 2021,
at 12:00 pm (EST) | 18:00 (German time).

We highly recommend the attendence in this zoom meeting at: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99102207490.

You will find more information on the NYU’s website.

See you all online on Monday!