MODERATOR:

Zoltán Ginelli is an independent researcher, geographer and global historian from Budapest, Hungary. He is interested in the global colonial history of Eastern Europe in relation to the Global South from a world-systemic and decolonialist perspective. He worked in the research projects 1989 After 1989 and Socialism Goes Global (University of Exeter, 2015–2019) and was an EEGA ScienceCampus fellow with his project Postcolonial Hungary (Universität Leipzig, 2020). Zoltán is writing a book on the global history of the quantitative revolution and co-writing another on 20th century Hungarian coloniality. He is also co-curating the art and research exhibition Transperiphery Movement: Global Eastern Europe and Global South for the 2021 OFF-Biennale Budapest (transperiphery.com). He admins Decolonizing Eastern Europe.
https://kritikaifoldrajz.hu/

 

PANELIST:

Magdalena Moskalewicz PhD is an art historian, curator, and editor, currently Assistant Professor, Adj. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Previously, she was A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her academic research mostly spans the art of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s in the former Eastern Europe, while her curatorial projects engage in collaborations with living artists, examining the postsocialist condition and its parallels with postcoloniality. Moskalewicz curated, among others Halka/Haiti for the Polish Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, 2015 (Jean Goldman Book Prize for the accompanying book); The Travellers: Voyage and Migration in New Art from Central and Eastern Europe, 2016-2018; and “In the Words, In the Bones” at the Boston Center for the Arts, 2019.  Moskalewicz is the 2020 recipient of Mary Zirin Prize awarded by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies.
https://magdalenamoskalewicz.com

Valeria Ibraeva Art critic, curator, former directorof the Soros Center for Contemporary Art-Almaty. Her research is dedicated to relationships between art and politics, changes in Central Asian culture, connected with the Central Asian region as a new part of the international process. Major publications are: “Die Kunst Kasachstans als politisches Projekt” in the book “Die Zuruk aus der Zukunf”, Frankfurt am Main, 2005; “Sto godina camoce”, “Radionica”magazine #2, Zagreb, 2002 ; “Vater und Sohne. Zwei generation neuer Kunstler in Kasachstan” in catalogue “Abseits der Seidenstrasse”, Berlin, 2002; “Waiting for Godot” in catalogue “A Contemporary Archive: Central Asia on the 51th Venice biennial”, Bishkek, 2005; “Rustam Khalfin’s Art” in catalogue Artist’s personal exhibition in White Space Gallery, London, 2007. Author of the book “Contemporary art in Kazakhstan. Postsoviet period”, 2014

Major curatorial projects: “No Mad’s Land”, House of the World Cultures, Berlin, 2002; “TransForma”, Center for Contemporary Art, Geneva, 2002; “People and Shadows”, Canaya Gallery, Mexico-city, 2004; “Tamerlan Syndrom”, Palazzo dei Sette, Orvieto, 2005;   “VideoIdentity: The Sacred Places of Central Asia”, Almaty-Dushanbe,  2003-2004; “Destination Asia”, Almaty-Mumbai, 2007-2008, “East of Nowhere”, Project107, Turin,2008 “Rape of Europe”, Almaty, 2014, nominator of Central Asian artists for the Signature Art Prize 2018, Singapure Art Museum, 2018;”Bad jokes” exhibition, 2019, Almaty-Astana. Ibraeva is the chief curator of Artmeken Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan; columnist in Forbes- Kazakhstan magazine.

D. Denenge Duyst–Akpem is a space sculptor whose award-winning teaching, art, and writing bridge disciplines of ritual, design, ecology, and Afrofuturity. Her fantastical interactive environments and performances interrogate, titillate, decolonize, and empower, asking: “Who controls the future?” She is Associate Professor, Adjunct, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Spring 2021 Associate Professor, Visiting Artist at Kentucky College of Art and Design; and Founder of Denenge Design and In The Luscious Garden, focused on holistic and conceptual approaches to human-centered design. 

Features include: ICA London with Black Quantum Futurism: Temporal Deprogramming; Arts Club of Chicago; Kunsthaus Zürich; Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin; ARTEXTE Montreal; U.S. Library of Congress (NASA/Blumberg); Red Bull Arts NY; Schomburg Center, Harlem, NY; AGO, Toronto; MCA, Chicago; Goethe Institut; NEH Fellowship; Place Lab Fellow, Rebuild Foundation with U-Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Select publications: AFRIFUTURI 02022020 and The Camo Coat Collection; essay on AFRICOBRA co-founder Jae Jarrell for Kavi Gupta Gallery and 58thVenice Biennale; upcoming contribution to Vegetal Entwinements, MIT Press.
https://denenge.net/