🗣️ Zuzeum is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a lecture by art historian, professor, and curator Dr. Jane A. Sharp “Re-curating Soviet Era Nonconformist Art – Histories and Practices”.
📅 Thursday, May 16, 17:00-18:30
🎟️ Free admission with prior registration
🗣️ The lecture will be held in English
This event is part of a series of meetings with esteemed international art professionals. These talks and lecture series, hosted by Zuzeum Art Centre, aim to bring exceptional art professionals to Riga to foster dialogue, exchange ideas, and provide unique opportunities for networking within the global art community. Stay tuned for updates on upcoming sessions and join us in exploring the dynamic realm of art on a global scale.
🔸 The lecture will consider how curatorial representations of non-conforming art have changed over the past 50 years, through displays of the biggest nonconformist art collection – Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection at Zimmerli Art Museum in the USA and, more recently, exhibitions in Europe. Jane Sharp seeks to recognize the urgency of shifts in curatorial discourse that embrace diversity by arguing that we need to allow art from the Baltics and other regions in the former Soviet space to press beyond such rhetorical platforms, and wholly reshape our practices.
A professor in the Department of Art History, at Rutgers University, Jane Sharp also acts as Research Curator of the Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union at the Zimmerli Art Museum. She teaches 20th and 21st-century art history, focusing on avant-garde art created in the prerevolutionary Russian empire and the former Soviet Union. Her publications include her book, Russian Modernism between East and West: Natal’ia Goncharova and the Moscow Avant-Garde, 1905-14 (Cambridge U P, 2006), which won the Robert Motherwell Prize from the Dedalus Art Foundation, and Thinking Pictures: The Visual Field of Moscow Conceptualism, the catalogue for her exhibition drawn from the Dodge Collection held at the Zimmerli Art Museum (September 6-December 31, 2016). This exhibition served as a departure point for a recurated show held at the National Museum of Estonian Art in 2022. Dr. Sharp is currently completing a book on Thaw era abstraction in the former USSR.