Group exhibition
Exposition collective
11.11.2023—10.03.2024
Walker Art Center
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, US
Minneapolis, US
Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980sMultiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s Avec : With: Alina Szapocznikow
Curated by:
Commissariat :
Pavel Pyś, William Hernández Luege, Laurel Rand-Lewis
« Multiple Realities » offre une vue d'ensemble de l'art expérimental réalisé dans six pays d'Europe centrale et de l'Est entre les années 1960 et 1980. L'exposition retrace l'histoire d'une génération d'artistes investis dans l'expérimentation, présente des œuvres rarement exposées aux États-Unis.
“Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s” offers a sweeping survey of experimental art made in six Central Eastern European nations during the 1960s to 1980s. Charting a generation of artists invested in experimentation, the Walker-organized exhibition features artworks rarely seen in the United States. Despite their geographical proximity, artists working during this time encountered different conditions for daily life and art-making, confronting varying degrees of control and pressure exerted by state authorities. Embracing conceptual or formal innovation and a spirit of adventurousness, Multiple Realities sheds light on ways that artists refused, circumvented, eluded, and subverted official systems, in the process creating works often riddled with wit, humor, or irony.
Vue de l’exposition « Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s », Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US.
Exhibition view, “Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s“, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US.
© Photo Eric Mueller, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
© Photo Eric Mueller, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Vue de l’exposition « Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s », Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US.
Exhibition view, “Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s“, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US.
© Photo Eric Mueller, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
© Photo Eric Mueller, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Vue de l’exposition « Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s », Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US.
Exhibition view, “Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s“, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US.
© Photo Eric Mueller, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
© Photo Eric Mueller, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Alina Szapocznikow
Kaprys - Monstre, 1967
Alina Szapocznikow
Kaprys - Monstre, 1967
Kaprys - Monstre, 1967
Kaprys - Monstre, 1967
Mousse polyuréthane, résine de polyester colorée, métal, câble d’alimentation, coton, fibre de verre, ampoule
200 × 90 × 45 cm
Courtesy The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow / Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris / Hauser & Wirth.
© ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow / Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris / Hauser & Wirth. Photo Thomas Barratt, Hauser & Wirth, New York.
Polyurethane foam, coloured polyester resin, metal, electrical wiring, bulb
7 7/8 × 35 7/16 × 17 3/4 in
Courtesy The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow / Piotr Stanislawski / Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris / Hauser & Wirth.
© ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow / Piotr Stanislawski / Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris / Hauser & Wirth. Photo Thomas Barratt, Hauser & Wirth, New York.
200 × 90 × 45 cm
Courtesy The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow / Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris / Hauser & Wirth.
© ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow / Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris / Hauser & Wirth. Photo Thomas Barratt, Hauser & Wirth, New York.
7 7/8 × 35 7/16 × 17 3/4 in
Courtesy The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow / Piotr Stanislawski / Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris / Hauser & Wirth.
© ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow / Piotr Stanislawski / Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris / Hauser & Wirth. Photo Thomas Barratt, Hauser & Wirth, New York.
