Reopening of Painting to Scale

Panel Discussion

Rethinking Dissent in the USSR: Practices and Possibilities in the Arts

Elita Ansone, Curator and Head of Collections, National Museum of Latvia

Mark Lipovetsky, Professor, Columbia University,

Irina Nakhova, Artist featured in Painting to Scale and Dodge Collection

Jane Sharp, Art History Professor and Research Curator of the Dodge Collection

Panelists reflect on and reimagine possibilities for interpreting dissent

in the former artistic communities of the Soviet Union.

Since the disintegration of the USSR – especially after Russia's invasion of Ukraine – artists and scholars have questioned the extent to which "nonconforming" artists accommodated and defied official art institutions and aesthetic imperatives.

The speakers return to these questions from a range of perspectives:

as a longtime curator in Riga and an artist in Moscow,

as well as scholars who have addressed the ambiguities and tensions

in unofficial art and literature for decades.

Reception

Guests are invited to enjoy refreshments

and explore artworks that have been rotated into the exhibition.

Free & open to the public. Visit the event page for all details, including parking registration.

Staff Photo.

Host or Publisher Zimmerli Art Museum