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ed as a ¨testbed” for young artists and curators coming from and curators coming for ¨testbed” artists ed a as young clear from the interest shown from our colleagues in Finland and in the in and in Finland from colleagues shown our from the interest clear between brackets, between red as brackets nicated through conferences and publications, all in English, are part of English, of are and in part publications, throughall conferences nicated

sectorial sectorial and multi - d also also worked explicitly with the Cold War period, or as it is is i called it as period, the or Cold with War worked explicitly Hegardt concludes in his case study “History between Red Brackets” (see below) (see study Brackets” “History Red between his case in Hegardt concludes

, project’s contribution to the the to contribution project’s Sweden and partly also Finland ha Finland Sweden also and partly The The Annika Öhrner’s contribution to this project is a study of hitherto unexplored relations unexplored hitherto study of is a this project to contribution Annika Öhrner’s Johan of “Western” institutional structures. While introducing the Nordic position in this complex position the in Nordic ofWhile institutional introducing structures. “Western” in regional ofthe the transcultural the of relations sphere Northern play importance and Baltic States and the will to publish our texts texts in journalsand ourStates Baltic the to international will publish the the concerns transition As of exhibition period whose ofSoros Foundation Art the the ofemerging activities is the field research analysis of This former general. forartEast the is initiatives were the in emerging crucial scenes but acknowledged critialso the international research frontline, if by the latter is not just the is frontline, research latter the by if international are on forth broughtbased new but excellence, where new a perspectives territory and new empirical studies. The project’s inter made has material and theoretical complex dimensions empirical project.This is contexts, while exploring regional aspects of cultural (P. transferBourdieu M. 2020, ofcontexts, while regional exploring cultural aspects 2006). Espagnes 3. Our results, commu new exhibitions to be inspected, the study reveals a reveals conception ofcertain new Baltic inspected, the exhibitions to a study be realm explained wi that cannot be art the the Thus, of East. to study deepens ideas Western “contemporary” and postmodern the knowledge ofhistorical how and functionofit how the transit period. In the Indelimitedthe transit post the period. (Jablonskiene future” “bufferan for antechamber the the and past to the countries,of desire to a the symptom exhibition withinBaltic intense activity emerged explore new artistic post in to Followingthe imperative turn P. Piotrowski’s from countries Baltic wanted these in but the and way towards the in curators artists what building the nation. 3. within and the between military success in neutrality.military success Sweden the the ofeven if years Yet, occupation. region, and in has the in display in period museums museums the other the Baltic national been place always block in that is be one occupation and as placed historical should the Soviet not of years 2. that but not political chosen also to for War practical period display the Cold othera the but as national war have displayed armyperiod hand, only museums and interpretation is presented to interpretation is presented art and the and culture museum Scientific final report attachment sida 5 av 7 2015-0046_RPT sida 6 av 9

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Nov 15, . Lars Kleberg; of [new]nations of ed Routledge, ,

2019 review) (peer making 7 New York: http://balticworlds.com/art- & Research Lateral Studies”, Art accepted for , Vol 2019: 2. to 2021 (peer review) (peer 2021 heritage change? Association of Critical honor of Irina Sandomirskaja honor of

in Art. transnational relations as constructed On in Beyond: Revising Peripheral Critical and Beyond: Practices

Dead – Remembering Cold Sweden”, War in Baltic Worlds Baltic Baltic Worlds Post-Soviet Baltic Sea area. for Monograph intended than the Magdalena Radomska, London

& Museum Worlds: in Advances Horizontal Art History Baltic-Nordic realm al conference at CBEES/Södertörn University, arranged by Dan Karlholm, al conference at CBEES/Södertörn University, arranged by Dan A , “Better Red Horizontal Art Horizontal History

the series Södertörn Studies in Art History Art and Studies in Aesthetics, in Södertörn series forthcoming in the in Baltic Sea”, fall What Curtain”, does of Iron the the s. Agata Jakubowska conference participants on Nov 16 at Färgfabriken. Johan Hegardt, red parentheses: “The Museums, memory and the after Words, Memory: Bodies, Festschrift A Johan Hegardt and Annika Öhrner, in collaboration with Färgfabriken art space. Johan Hegardt and Annika Öhrner, in collaboration with Färgfabriken and 2018. Keynote speakers: Rimvydas Laužikas, Professor of digital Social Science Susanna Pettersson, Ph.D, Humanities, The Faculty of Communication, Vilnius University, Dan Karlholm, “Traumatic Contemporaneity: Dan Reflections on Piotrowski’s Critical Karlholm, “Traumatic Piotr Museography”, forthcoming in A Annika "Art Outside Öhrner, Centers In The National Art Soros History Paradigm: Global Perspective": Review of East Globalizing European Art Past Present. Histories. and Eds. Beáta Hock Allas, and Anu Remember, How to Forget? Post-Soviet Museum Practices around the Baltic “How to Remember, How to Forget? Post-Soviet Museum Practices around Sea”, internation biennial Heritage Montreal, conference, Third Studies, Canada, June 2016. Tora Lane; Marcia Sá Cavalcante Huddinge: Shuback, 2019: Södertörns högskola, http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1346313/FULLTEXT01.pdf Dan Karlholm, ”From ed review) (peer forthcoming 2021 in new art exhibitions within Annika Öhrner, history-outside-the-nationalist-paradigm/ Director General of Nationalmuseum, Stockholm and Linara Dovydaityte, Associate Director General of Nationalmuseum, Stockholm and Linara Dovydaityte, for invited professor, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas. Followed by a workshop Johan Hegardt publication 2021 review) (peer Conferences Publications Publications Johan Hegardt, “History between Red Brackets: The Cold War History Museums in around the publication Scientific final report attachment sida 7 av 7 2015-0046_RPT sida 8 av 9 - nd Found Museum U Museum Sea”, The Sea”, t a “The Center ic nineteenth the nineteenth k kholm the Balt the Networ h ound 1990s, KUM the 1990s, future’? Transnational future’?Transnational ar y history during t history the t 2016. conference t the conference Los a iety in in Ar Studies”, Symposium Rosersberg Rosersberg Studies”, Symposium memor d d Soc on Anna Lena Karlsson, Karlsson, Stoc Lena Anna t an d by n Ar antechamber forantechamber Exhibiti making unit - k nd a Museums an Museums t : disadvantages of history nd disadvantages forlife. International “Transitioning Spaces” Spaces” “Transitioning Networ n Europea Sea Area art exhibitions”, Researc Sea exhibitions”, Area art

n the pas the ic to Balt parentheses d chair ion chair for oviet ‘buffer ‘buffer S A advantages a on the advantages centuries”, arrange centuries”, workshop, th Divide? Scandinavia Divide? the Post- y Past: l Past: for Theory of History, Ouro Preto, Brazil, Augus Preto, Brazil, Ouro History, k forof Theory Displacements in : Displacements Easter Hegardt, Hegardt, re “The Karlholm, ”The nation as a as Karlholm,meaning ”The nation n twentie n nd Joha spaces in spaces Practica Da Spaces of Tallinn, 2018. Art, Nov 1-3, Annika Öhrner,“ Peripher castle, 29-30 August 2019. Networ a University, 2018.April Annika Öhrner,sess