2004 / Museum od Modern Art, Saint-Etienne, France, May–August 2004. Curator Lóránd Hegyi. Czech section in collaboration with the AVU Research Centre.
An international exhibition of contemporary artists from Central and Eastern Europe.
Jan Mancuska, Space behind the Wall, 2004 – Installation, Galerie Andrew Kreps, NY
Exhibitors according to section:
HOMMAGE– Zdenek Sykora, Stano Filko, Roman Opalka, Ilya Kabakov, Jiri Kolar, Julije Knifer, Erik Boulatov;
CARREFOUR – Braco Dimitrijevic, Marina Abramovic, Mihael Milunovic, Danica Dakic, Maja Bajevic, Olga Kisseleva;
NOMADE – Nebojsa Seric-Soba, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Marjetica Potrč, Dean Jokanovic Toumin, Antal Lakner;
INSULA – Ivan Kozaric, Istvan Nadler, Karel Malich, Tamas Hencze, Miroslav Balka, Zeljko Kipke, Nedko Solakov, Karoly Kelemen, Jan Mancuska, Denisa Lehocka, Leon Tarasevic, Andras Koncz, Tomas Hlavina, Jiri Cernicky, Laszlo Feher;
DISCOURS – Sejla Kameric, Dan Perjovschi,
IRWIN, Andreja Kulundzic, Piotr Jaros, Alma Suljevic, Ilona Nemeth, Renate Poljak, Jiri Suruvka, Uros Djuric, Oleg Kulik, Gordana Andjelic-Galic, Ivana Franke, Miodrag Krkobabic, Jelena Radic, Dejan Kaludjerovic, Michal Pechoucek, Alexander Ponomarev, Anastasia Khorosilova, Azorro, Kuba Bakowski, Bergamot, Anna Niesterowicz, Julita Wojcik, Artur Zmijevski, Jan J. Kotík, Jesper Alvaer, Inta Ruka, Ene-Liis Semper, Laszlo Revesz, Erik Binder, Sandor Pinczehelyi.
Cover of the catalogue
Passage d´Europe is one of the exhibitions by which European institutions react to current political changes connected with the expansion of the European Union towards the East. The exhibition in Saint-Etienne was conceived by the curator Lóránd Hegyi, formerly the director of the Museum of Modern Art – Ludwig in Vienna collection. During his long engagement in this institution he attempted to connect the art of the post- Communist countries to the context of the overall situation of art in the postwar world. The current exhibition includes in terms of tendency only artists of 10 new member states, but also works with the context of the “East” in its former geo-political boundaries. Passage d´Europe also presents to a large extent the art of the former Yugoslavia and Russia. Central and Eastern Europe is presented as a place of conflicting tradition and recent past. The Czech artists exhibiting in Saint-Etienne are Jiří Černický, Tomáš Hlavina, Jan J. Kotík, Ján Mančuška, Karel Malich, Michal Pěchouček, Jiří Surůvka and Zdeněk Sýkora. Jiří Ševčík contributed the text “The Strategy of Change” to the exhibition catalogue. The scientific and research workshop of AVU prepared documentation for the catalogue and mediated contact with the exhibiting Czech and Slovak artists.