(1) Elements from Ivan Picelj: Composition “Tyma 3”, 1951; (2) Antun Augustinčić: Marshal Tito, 1948. Photo: Mario Kučera. © National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb. Design: Yevheniia Havrylenko.
The exhibition traces specific cultural and political developments in Socialist Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1960, a period marked by the rapid evolution of formal visual language and content. While acknowledging this cultural phenomenon, the curatorial framework also seeks to foreground its pragmatic background and raison d’être, which points to the fact that great cultural breakthroughs have often come at the expense of human suffering.
Gulnur Mukazhanova, »Memory of Hope«, 2025
The exhibition by Gulnur Mukazhanova is conceived as a contemporary intervention within the historical space of Kunsthaus Dahlem. Through a spatial installation made of textile, soft, body-related materials, the artist responds to the building’s monumental architecture, whose history has been shaped by ideological attributions as well as political upheavals. Mukazhanova, born in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, studied…