Tag: USSR

  • Saodat Ismailova: As We Fade

    Three seductive, spellbinding films demonstrate the Uzbek artist and film-maker’s confidence in letting images tell the story, in her first solo exhibition at a UK institution

  • Deimantas Narkevičius: 20 July 2015

    In the Lithuanian artist’s latest exhibition, contrasting public reaction to the dismantling of communist public sculptures in his homeland are examined in two video works

  • Kassel Documenta

    Kassel Documenta is commonly compared to the Olympic games, but, being an inhabitant of former Eastern Empire, I remember great all-Union exhibitions held in the USSR, where regional unions of artists struggled fiercely for the right to ‘represent’. The rhetorical…