Opening-Day Programs: Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s

This program will have ASL interpretation.

Pop-up performances will take place between 2–5 pm throughout the museum. Performers may engage (but not touch) visitors in some performances. Visitors who prefer not to participate may exit the space.

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London-based artist and filmmaker Jasmina Cibic represented Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennial. Her solo exhibitions include MAC Lyon, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Museum Sztuki Łódź, MSUM Ljubljana, CCA Glasgow, Phi Foundation Montreal, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, MSU Zagreb, MOCA Belgrade, and Ludwig Museum Budapest. Cibic was the winner of the MAC International Ulster Bank and Charlottenborg Fonden awards (2016), the B3 Biennial of the Moving Image Award (2020), and the Film London Jarman Award (2021).

Ania Nowak (Poland, b. 1983) approaches vulnerability and desire as ways toward reimagining what bodies and language can and cannot do. Nowak develops formats such as live and video performance, installation, and text. In their practice, the artist engages with bodies in their nonlinear feeling and thinking capacity to tackle the difficulties of companionship and care in times of perpetual crisis. Nowak’s work attempts to reimagine the notions of disorder, pleasure, disease, intimacy, pain, sexuality, class, and accessibility as sites of binary-free living. The artist collaborates with alternative educational programs in Eastern Europe, such as Kem School in Warsaw and the School of Kindness in Sofia. The artist recently a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and their works have been presented at Berlinische Galerie, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Akademie der Künste and KW, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; 14th Baltic Triennial, Vilnius; and the 12th Gothenburg Biennial.