Exhibiting Yugoslavia

Exhibiting Yugoslavia
Date
Thu January 10th 2019, 5:30 - 7:00pm
Event Sponsor
Department of Art & Art History, CREEES Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, Stanford Department of Theater & Performance Studies
Location
Oshman Auditorium, McMurtry Building
Speaker:

This talk will discuss the conceptualization and development of the exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It will address the curatorial strategies and archival challenges encountered in the process, and it will reflect on the potentially transformative meaning of the exhibition for the built heritage of the former socialist world.

Vladimir Kulić is an architectural historian, curator, and critic, and Associate Professor at the College of Design, Iowa State University. He is the co-curator of the exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (July 2018-January 2019), and author and editor of several books, including Modernism In-Between: The Mediatory Architectures of Socialist Yugoslavia (2012) and Second World Postmodernisms: Architecture and Society Under Late Socialism (2019). Vladimir has received numerous fellowships and grants, including those from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2017), Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (2015), American Academy in Berlin (2015), and Graham Foundation (2007, 2014, 2018).

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