Kunstlerplakate: Artists’ Posters from East Germany
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Past Programs
Posters and Politics: How the Avant-Garde and the German Tradition of Printmaking Collided in the GDR, 1949–1989
Jeanne Anne Nugent, art historian and independent curator based in New York, will examine avant-garde culture under state socialism during the Cold War.
Posters on Principle
Kim Conaty, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, Museum of Modern Art, will trace a brief history of artists’ posters, situating East German Künstlerplakate within it.
“The state’s restrictions were not complete! There were holes …”: Art and the State in East Germany, 1967–1990
Examining artists’ relationships with the state in East Germany between 1967 and 1990, Emily Pugh, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, will explore artists’ practices in the East German regime, considering what was allowed or disallowed and why.
Symposium: Where is Ana Mendieta? 25 Years Later
With Kat Griefen, Director, A.I.R. Gallery; Genevieve Hyacinthe, Assistant Professor, Purchase College (SUNY); José Esteban Muñoz, Chair, Department of Performance Studies, NYU; Carolee Schneemann, artist; and Diana Taylor, University Professor and Founding Director, Hemispheric Institute, NYU.
Up Against the Wall: Art Posters in Germany
Robert Storr, artist, curator, critic, and Dean, Yale University School of Art, will survey poster making by artists in Germany during the 1970s and ’80s—ranging from Joseph Beuys, Martin Kippenberger, and their West German contemporaries to the East German designers in Künstlerplakate. Co-sponsored by NYU’s Department of Art History, Deutsches Haus, and Grey Art Gallery.
Gallery Talks: Künsterplakate, Artists’ Posters from East Germany, 1967-1990
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 with Ingrid Mössinger and Wednesday, October 20, 2010 with Mark Johnson at 6:30 pm
Exhibition: Where is Ana Mendieta? 25 Years Later
Exploring the life’s work and legacy of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985), this show also includes documents from the A.I.R. Gallery Archives, Fales Library, NYU, and BloodWork, a film by Richard Move.