Program

9:00-9:30

Coffee and rolls

9:30

Welcome

Camilla Jalving, Deputy Director of Collections, Research and Conservation, SMK – National Gallery of Denmark

Yvette Brackman, artist and Mads Øvlisen Novo Nordisk Postdoc Fellow, SMK – National Gallery of Denmark

Introductory remarks on the Collective Body
Christina Kiær, Novo Nordisk Visiting Professor, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen

9:45-12:00

Histories of the Collective Body in Socialist Internationalism

From Neo-Byzantinism to Socialist Realism: Ukrainian Monumental Art of the Early Twentieth Century
Katia Denysova, Ph.D. candidate, The Courtauld Institute of Art

Corporeal Dismemberments of (Post-)Soviet Imperialism, Warsaw 1955/Moscow 2022
Michal Murawski, Lecturer, School of Slavonic Studies, University College London

Soviet Cultural Collaborations with the Postcolonial World: Cairo-Moscow in the 1970s
Maria Mileeva, Associate Lecturer, The Courtauld Institute of Art

Taming the Modernist Body of Kharkiv through its Dismemberment, Reconstruction, Implantation and Destruction
Ievgeniia Gubkina, Architect & architectural historian, NGO Urban Forms Center

DISCUSSION
moderated by Christina Kiær

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:30

Roundtable: Danish-Soviet Reflections

Art for the Masses: Danish Mural Art of the Interwar Period
Tom Hermansen, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen

USSR/DK: Transnational Art and Personal Relations
Tania Ørum, Associate Professor Emerita, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen

Putin’s Nose
Kristoffer Ørum, visual artist and researcher

Soviet and Russian Child Performances of (In)human Alphabets
Birgitte Beck Pristed, Associate Professor, Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University

DISCUSSION
moderated by Samuel Rachlin

14:30-14:45

Break – coffee

14:45-15:45

Art in Ukraine Now

Decolonial Strategies in New Ukrainian art
Svitlana Biedarieva, Ibero-American University, Mexico City

Exodus from the Post-Soviet Condition: Artists’ Cinema after the Maidan Revolution
Olexii Kuchanskiy (s/he), independent researcher & film programmer, Kyiv, Ukraine

DISCUSSION
moderated by Michal Murawski

15:45-16:00

Break – coffee and cake

16:00-18:00

Ukrainian Artists Now

Maria Kulikovska/Garage 33

Dana Kavelina

Nikita Kadan

Anti Gonna

CONCLUDING DISCUSSION
moderated by Yvette Brackman