Alpen-Adria-Univ. Klagenfurt/Celovec, Institut für Slawistik; Elena Messner, Markus Gönitzer und Cristina Beretta (Web)

Time: 27.-28.10.2023
Venue: Alpen-Adria-Univ. Klagenfurt/Celovec and WerkStattMuseum im Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Haus

Programme (PDF)

Sessions: Introductory Lectures: Female Resistance | Magazines, Graphic Arts & Journalism | Theatre, Dance, Singing/Choir & Performance | Visual Media, Art & Museum | Performance: The Lost Futures of the Carinthian Partisans | Graphic Novels, Film & Iconization | Literatur | Monuments & the Arts | Opening of the Exhibition with Members of the Curatorial Team: ŽENSKO IME ODPORA/The Female Name of Resistance | Excursion to the Museum und Gedänkstätte Peršmanhof

The goal is to organize a conference that addresses and questions current artistic and scientific positions on partisan art through the lens of gender and gender-theories. The focus lies on art and culture both of the partisan movement and about the partisan movement in Yugoslavia and Carinthia. The question that guides this conference is: how – in addition to politically and socially rooted themes such as the struggle for liberation, the question of class, the socialist revolution, and the victory over Nazism – can we pinpoint aesthetics of the “partisan” that conveys specific revolutionary and emancipatory narratives, and how can this aesthetic be (re)interpreted through a gender-focused gaze? The conference aims to generate scientific knowledge that encompasses cultural-theoretical, historical-scientific and art-analytical positions, that explores the formats of the partisan aesthetic. Read more … (Web).

Vortragsreihe „Geschichte am Mittwoch“ und Jour fix des Instituts für die Erforschung der Frühen Neuzeit (Web)

Zeit: Mi., 15.11.2023, 18.30-20.00 Uhr
Ort: Univ. Wien, Hörsaal 30, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien und virtueller Raum

In the second half of the 18th century, Central Europe, like other parts of the continent, witnessed progressive developments in the education of the artist when the local rulers reformed many of the older artistic academies or established new ones. A prime example of this praxis was Jakob Matthias Schmutzer’s Academy for Drawing and Engraving, founded in 1766 and merged with the other artistic schools or academies in Vienna into the new institution „United Academy of Fine Arts“ („k.k. freye, vereinigte Akademie der bildenden Künste“) in 1772. Orientation towards Parisian models („The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture“ and the „École Royale Gratuite de Dessin“) and a network of international contacts strengthened the new position of the Vienna Academy and helped established new educational principles and thus significantly raised the interest of students from different parts of the world. Instead of the traditional interpretation based on one or several „leading“ artistic personalities, the lecture tries to amplify multiple voices and testimonies – mostly neglected – from forgotten students and „marginal“ artists to art models. Tomáš Vales will also try to show how the geographical and cultural diversity combined with the interests and social ties of individual professors and members – one of the distinctive signs of the academy manifested in the artistic production itself and which role gender and race played in this story.

Moderation: Friedrich Polleroß

Tomáš Valeš studied art history at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno (PhD 2013). Since 2008, he has been employed with the Institute of Art History CAS in Prague. He focuses on the art of the early modern era, mainly painting, drawing and prints, connoisseurship and patronage. Since 2017, he has been working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Art History, MU in Brno Continue reading →