Public lecture – Klara Kemp-Welch

14th October at 17:30 in the room A-501 Klara Kemp-Welch will give an open lecture Free Movement? Tracking Migration and Mobility in Eastern Europe since the early 2000s

Klara Kemp-Welch is Reader in 20th Century Modernism at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She works on modern and contemporary art from Eastern Europe. She was educated at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and University College London and is the author of Antipolitics in Central European Art. Reticence as Dissidence under Post-Totalitarian Rule 1956-1989 (IB Tauris, 2014), Networking the Bloc. Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965-1981 (MIT Press, 2019) and co-editor of A Reader in East-Central European Modernism 1918-1956 with Beata Hock and Jonathan Owen (Courtauld Books Online, 2019). She is currently completing a monograph entitled “Free Movement? Documenting Migration and Mobility in Eastern Europe”.

This lecture introduces her current research project, “Free Movement?”, which is structured around three core themes: labour mobility, displacement, and border politics. With reference to a selection of lens-based case studies, I examine how contemporary artists have represented Eastern European experiences of migration and mobility since the early 2000s.

Lecture will be held in cooperation of Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and  Estonian Doctoral School for Humanities and Arts

Project “Cooperation between universities to promote doctoral studies” (2021-2027.4.04.24-0003) is co-funded by the European Union.