CONFERENCE: European Kinship – Eastern European Perspective↴

https://capacenter.hu/esemenyek/conference-european-kinship-eastern-european-perspective/

How can Eastern Europeanism be defined? What is it that is distinctively its own, that binds the peoples who live here and share a common history and geography? And what are the global solutions to local specificities? Or what and how does all this become one in Euro-ness? What are the trends towards deeper European integration and more international cooperation? And how do they affect artistic-photographic practices dealing with the world around us, its phenomena, its effects, and the related feelings and problems? In the one-day international conference at the Polish Institute Budapest, international experts will be asked about what characterizes Eastern European visual culture and what meanings it may have on the international photographic and/or cultural scene. The conference was organized in collaboration with the Polish Institute (Budapest), the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (Budapest), the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (Warsaw), the British Journal of Photography (London), and the REZO Agency (Poland/Portugal).

Date: March 27, 2025, Thursday

Venue: Polish Institute Budapest (Nagymező u. 15, 1065)

The admission to the conference is free.

09:00am – 09:30am

Introduction by Jarosław BAJACZYK director, Polish Institute

Introduction by Weronika ELERTOWSKA, Adam Mickiewicz Institute

Introduction by István VIRÁGVÖLGYI, artistic director, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center

9:30am – 10:30am

European Kinship: Eastern European Perspective – Curators of the exhibition: Wiktoria MICHAŁKIEWICZ (REZO, Poland/Portugal) and Emese MUCSI (Capa Center, Hungary) in conversation with Diane SMYTH (editor, British Journal of Photography, UK)

10:30am – 11:30am

State of the Art / Central European Photography Institutions – moderated by Emese MUCSI (curator, Capa Center);

Panelists: Dominik KURYŁEK (curator, Museum of Photography, Poland); Ágnes BÁSTHY (researcher, PhD candidate, ELTE University, Hungary); Karolina ZIĘBIŃSKA-LEWANDOWSKA (curator, director, Museum of Warsaw, Poland)

11:30am – 11:45am Coffee break

11:45am – 12:45 Eastern Europe in the World – moderated by Wiktoria MICHAŁKIEWICZ (curator, REZO)

Panelists: Catherine TROIANO (curator, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK); Marit Lena HERRMANN (curator Foto Arsenal Wien, Austria), Gilles CARGUERAY (director, editor, Edissions Odysee, France)

12:45-13:45 Lunch break @ Polish Institute

13:45 – 14:40: Artist Talk: Michał ŁUCZAK: Extraction, Word Book (photographer, Sputnik Photos, Poland) & Arion Gábor KUDÁSZ: Human (DLA, photographer, associate professor, Head of Photography Knowledge Center, MOME, Hungary); presented by Emese MUCSI (Capa Center, Hungary) & Wiktoria MICHALKIEWICZ (REZO, Poland/Portugal)

14:45 – 15:45: Emerging from Eastern Europe – Best Practices, moderated by István VIRÁGVÖLGYI (artistic director, Capa Center)

Agata BAR (editor, publications producer, co-founder of Growing Pains, Poland / Netherlands); Marina PAULENKA (director of exhibitions, Fotografiska Berlin, former director, Organ Vida, Germany / Croatia), Péter PUKLUS (artist, Hungary)

15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break @ Capa Center

16:00 – 17:00 Guided tour at the European Kinship – Eastern European Perspective exhibition at the Capa Center for the participants and the audience of the conference by the exhibiting artists and the curators.

17:00 – 17:15 Coffee break @ Capa Center

18:00 – 19:00 Public opening of the exhibition The Book of Long Objects by Ukrainian artists, Lia Dostlieva at the Platán Gallery. Conversation & presentation of the book In Pieces by Agata BAR & Lia DOSTLIEVA

Due to limited places, the conference will be streamed via YouTube.

📸: Katerina Kouzmitcheva – Betonium

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