Art Talk: Multiple Realities: Navigating Experimental Art in Central Eastern Europe, 1960s–1980s

April 17, 2024 | 6 – 7:30 PM

Presented in Singer Hall. Limited capacity.

TICKETS: Free for Members | $5 for the general public

Join us as Pavel Pyś, Curator of Visual Arts and Collections Strategy at the Walker Art Center offers a broad overview of special-engagement exhibition Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s, with a particular focus on the relationship between the works on view and the political climate at the time of their creation.

About the Speakers:

Pavel Pyś is Curator of Visual Arts and Collections Strategy at the Walker Art Center. At the Walker, Pavel has been working across a range of projects, including solo exhibitions with Daniel Buren, Paul Chan, Michaela Eichwald, Carolyn Lazard, and Elizabeth Price, as well as group exhibitions Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s and The Body Electric. Prior to the Walker, Pavel was the Exhibitions & Displays Curator at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds between 2011 and 2015. In 2011, he was the recipient of the Zabludowicz Collection Curatorial Open and the curatorial residency at the Fondazione Sandre^o Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy. He has published essays on artists including Trisha Baga, Carol Bove, Michael Dean, and Hague Yang.