Art and Solidarity - No Feeling Is Final. Symposium

Art and Solidarity is a two-day symposium that explores the complex histories of various international solidarity art collections and campaigns in the context of the Cold War and their legacies today.

fig. 1 - Peter Clarke, Building Fenu City, woodcut, 31,5 x 47 cm, ed. 1/15. Courtesy of MoCA, Skopje

The conference expands "No Feeling Is Final," an exhibition on display at the National Gallery Prague (NGP) and the Lidice Art Collection (LAC) in Lidice Gallery, Lidice Memorial.

SPEAKERS

María Berríos - MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Aleksei Borisionok - Biennale Matter of Art 2024 Prague, Rado Ištok - National Gallery Prague, Magda Lipska - Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Bojana Piškur - Moderna galerija Ljubljana, Jovanka Popova, МСУ — Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Rasha Salti, independent curator, Eszter Szakács, independent curator and Miloslav Vorlíček - Lidice Art Collection, Lidice Memorial

PROGRAMME

Saturday 21 September 2024 @ Trade Fair Palace, NGP

Day one will focus on three historical solidarity collections established in the 1960s and 1970s: Skopje, North Macedonia, the collection for the Museo de la Solidaridad (Museum of Solidarity) in Chile and the collection intended for a future "museum in solidarity" for Palestine.

2 pm - 3.30 pm, Floor 1
- Curator's Guided Tour: "No Feeling Is Final." (Rado Ištok, curator NGP)
3.30 pm - 4 pm, Korzo
- Coffee Break
4 pm - 5.30 pm, Korzo
- Solidarity Art Collections + Q&A
  - Speakers: Jovanka Popova, Museum of Contemporary Art - Skopje), María Berríos (MACBA, Barcelona) and Rasha Salti (independent curator, Marseille)
  - Moderator: Rado Ištok

Sunday 22 September 2024 @ Lidice Gallery, Lidice Memorial

Day two of the symposium explores various forms of grassroots and state-managed solidarity movements and campaigns during the Cold War. It will address the relations between socialist Europe, the Global South, and beyond from Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Poland perspectives.

2 pm - 3.30 pm, Ground Floor
- Curators' Guided Tours: "No Feeling Is Final." (Miloslav Vorlíček, Curator and Registrar - LAC) and "Biennale Matter of Art 2024: "Dernier Poème" (Aleksei Borisionok, Curator - BMA 2024)
3.30 pm - 4 pm, Floor 1
- Coffee Break
4 pm - 5.30 pm, Floor 1
- Cold War Solidarities + Q&A
  - Speakers: Bojana Piškur (Moderna galerija, Ljubljana), Eszter Szakács (independent curator, Amsterdam) and Magda Lipska (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw)
  - Moderator: Miloslav Vorlíček

Please note that the programme is in English, and a Q&A follows each talk. Instituto Cervantes in Prague kindly supports the symposium.