Maliarske korene súčasnosti v strednej Európe
The Painting Roots of Contemporaneity in Central Europe
Author(s): Lucia Gregorová StachSubject(s): Gender Studies, Cultural history, Visual Arts, Aesthetics, Recent History (1900 till today), Post-Communist Transformation, History of Art
Published by: SAV - Slovenská akadémia vied - Slovenská akadémie vied - Centrum vied o umení
Keywords: Central European identity; Postmedia painting; Postconceptual art; Ecology; Postsocialist art; Painting after 1989
Summary/Abstract: This study examines painting as an ontological and identity-forming practice in Central Europe from the post-war period to the present. It argues that painting in this region has functioned less as a stable medium or stylistic category than as a mode of embodied and situated thinking shaped by historical ruptures, political discontinuities, migration, and post-socialist transformations. Rather than operating through iconography or thematic representation, painting internalises these conditions as structural parameters of artistic practice. Through key case studies, the study outlines distinct models of painting as ontological inquiry. The article situates these practices beyond centre–periphery narratives. In dialogue with post-1989 positions, particularly those of artists working with autobiographical and reparative strategies, the text frames painting as a resilient ontological practice in which gendered and embodied identities are enacted as open, processual conditions, resisting discursive reduction within the post-media field.
Journal: ARS
- Issue Year: 58/2025
- Issue No: Special
- Page Range: 31-73
- Page Count: 43
- Language: Slovak, English
