International Conferences

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES

2024Guest speaker at Mobilising the feminist imaginary: arts-based research and creative activism, Summer School seminar, CEU, Budapest. July 2. 2024.
“The Time of Art History and the “Personal Time” of the Art Historian”Speaker at the conference Understanding 1989 in East-Central European Art. War vs. Revolution, Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Central European Art. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, June 14-15 2024.
2023Guest speaker at “ZONA+”, a one-day Performance Program, as part of the Closing Event of Timisoara 2023 European Capital of Culture. Corneliu Mikloși Museum, Timișoara, December 9, 2023.
“Procrustean Bed or Freudian Couch: Which is the better fit for writing East-Central European Art History?” Keynote speaker at the conference What is to be Done? Methodological Challenges to Art Historical Research in Central and Eastern Europe. George Enescu National University of the Arts, Iasi, October 12-13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgHnBt1-dyk
“Pop then, Pop now; Pop there, Pop here.” Speaker at Hot Art, Cold War. Supplements, Extensions, Alternative Narratives. International Symposium. Poznań, June 2, 2023.
Amorous Nation. Invited lecturer. Centre for Modern Art and Theory. Masaryk University | Faculty of Arts Department of the History of Art. April 19, 2023.
2022Guest speaker at Narrating Art and Feminism: Eastern Europe and Latin America online seminar series led by Agata Jakubowska and Andrea Giunta, supported by the Getty Foundation as part of its Connecting Art Histories initiative. June 20. 2022
“Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, Transcending the Borders in Post-Socialist Nationalist Hungary” Panel: Border as Method: Art Historical Interventions (Saloni Mathur, Elisa Martinez) Migration, 35th CIHA’s World Congress, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2022.
2021“Kis nagy elmélet. Globális és lokális közé szorult diskurzusok , értelmezési keretek.” Panel: A hely szelleme (Sándor Hornyik) [“Little Big Theory: Discourse and Frames inbetween Global and Local.”] Látkép 2021 – Művészettörténeti Fesztivál, Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Művészettörténeti Intézete, Budapest, 2021. Sept. 23–25.
“Contemporary Artists and the Contested Past. Martin Piaček and Szabolcs KissPál conversation with Edit András.” National Histories, Imperial Memories: Representing the Past in Interwar Central Europe. Online seminar series. Organized by CRAACE Continuity/Rupture: Art and Architecture in Central Europe 1918–1939. Brno: Masaryk University, 2021.
2019“Whose Canon is the ‘newly shaped, alter-modern canon’ and is it really an altered one?” Which Past the Present Stands on? Shifting Paradigms of Regional Art History Writing, Mezosfera Workshop, organized by tranzit.hu, Budapest, 2019, Dec. 13–14.
“Whose time is it anyway? The future is behind us, the past is ahead of us.” A collaboration project between tranzit.sk and Open Studio program organized by Studio IN (AFAD, Bratislava). Bratislava, 2019. March. 6.
sk.tranzit.org/en/lecture/0/2019-03-06/edit-andras-whose-time-is-it-anyway-the-future-is-behind-us-the-past-is-ahead-of-us
2018Roundtable discussion with Florence Derieux and Randy Kennedy on the exhibition of Geta Bratescu, The leaps of Aesop. New York: Hauser & Wirth Gallery, 2018, Nov. 30.
www.hauserwirth.com/randy-kennedy-florence-derieux-edit-andras-geta-bratescu
“Shift from Geopolitics of Place to Chrono-politics of Time.” Session: Postcolonial Conditions and Decolonial perspectives. (chair: Magdalena Radomska) Theorizing the Geography of East-Central European Art conference. Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Centrasl European Art, Poznan, 2018, Oct 27.
“The Future is Behind Us the Past is Ahead of Us.” Plotting Decolonial Options: Translocal Interrogations. Workshop and lecture, organized by Igor Zabel Foundation, Ljubljana and ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2018.
In Conversation: Randy Kennedy, Florence Derieux, and Edit András on ‘Geta Brâtescu’ on the occasion of ‘Geta Brâtescu. The Leaps of Aesop,’ at Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street, a conversation in Hauser & Wirth Punblishers Bookshop moderated by Randy Kennedy with Florence Derieux and art historian Edit András.
https://vimeo.com/249390925
2016Open Forum – Universal hospitality. Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Vienna, June 3-5. co-organizer with with Birgit Lurz, Ilona Németh, Wolfgang Schlag
Central European Art and Culture: Work in Progress Seminar University of Birmingham, Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies Birmingham, June 6-10.
Impossible Dialogues. Collaboration between ERSTE Stiftung, FramesFramed and Amsterdam University College, Amsterdam, April 8-10. Invited lecturer
framerframed.nl/en/mensen/edit-andras/
https://vimeo.com/167717542?share=copy
Different Histories and Critical Museum. What Art History? In memoriam Piotr Piotrowski conference. Moderna galerija, Museum of Modern Art, Igor Zabel Association and ERSTE Foundation, Ljubljana, Dec. 7-10. Invited lecturer
https://video.arnes.si/en/watch/kiXHqASXHJ5Z
2015Visualizing the Nation. Post-Socialist ImagiNations. Supported by ERSTE Foundation, Budapest, Nov. 27-28. Chief-Organizer
“Revolution ON and OFF. The Hungarian Patient.” The Beast and is the Sovereign. Conference. Württembergisher Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 2015, Oct. 17-18. Homage to the Half-Truth: Imagination in historical reenactment. Former West Conference. Organised by tranzit.hu, May 13-14. Invited lecturer
Lecture page: formerwest.org/PublicEditorialMeetings/ThereIsACrackInTheMuseumOfHistoryIsThatHowTheFutureGetsIn/Video/HomageToTheHalfTruthEditAndras
Direct link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obHfo_Gdieg
“Trajectory of Criticism in the Time of Post-Socialist Nationalism.” Organized by Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory & World of Art program, SCCA Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts, Sept. 16. Public lecture
“Trajectory of Criticism in the Time of Post-Socialist Nationalism.” Künslterhaus, Haller für Kunst and Medien, Graz, Sept. 17. Public lecture
“Democracy under Construction. Pardon our Appearances. Art and Nationalism in the Post-Socialist countries.” ARTES LIBERALES – art & education festival organized by the academic community and students of EHU Media dept., Minsk, Apr. 1. Invited lecturer
2013“Transformation in feminist politics of claiming the public space” lecture given at Good Girls – Practicing Feminism Here and Now. International Symposium, MNAC, Bukarest, Sept. 26-28.
“Reclaiming and creating public space in Central-Eastern European Post-Socialist Nationalism” Shared Cities conference, Kosice, May 23-26.
“(Re)claiming public space in post-socialist nationalism.” Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, March 19. Public lecture
2012“Women’s Art in Hungary. Roundtable.” The Politics of Location Revisited: Gender@2012, CEU, Budapest, May 19.
Reshuffling the keywords. A follow-up seminar to the Clark Art Institute initiative in Central-Eastern Europe. Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, May 25-26. core-member
CULBURB project. Cultural Acupuncture Treatment for Suburb. Workshop. Vienna, March 21-23. Invited expert
2011Art History Meets Art Theory International. The Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusettes, USA, and New Europe College-Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest, 2011, May 20-21
“Nationalism claiming the public space” Continental breakfast. Place of Encounter. Fifth Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Curators, Venice, 2011 June 1-2.
“The time of tapestry” Web of Europe Conference, MoME, Budapest, 2011 Nov. 10.
2010“The Future Is Behind Us.” CAA (College Art Association) Annual Conference, Chicago, 2010. Feb. 10-12. Panel: Transformation Reconsidered: “Utopias”, Realities, and National Traditions in Post-1989 Central Europe (Chair: Andrzej Szczerski) 2010, Feb. 10-12.
“Public Monuments in Changing Societies” Where the West Ends Former West seminar series, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2010, March 18-19.
Main website: formerwest.org
Program page: formerwest.org/ResearchSeminars/WhereTheWestEnds/Program
Direct link to video: https://vimeo.com/10485018
Unexpected Encounters: Points of Intersection. Methodologies of research and interpretation of the practices of a historical conceptualism Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, 2010, Nov. 27. lecturer
Participation as a core member in the international seminar organized by The Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusettes, USA, and the Art Academy, Institute of Art History, entitled Thinking Art History in East-Central Europe, Tallinn, Art Academy, 2010, May 14-15.
Art History on the Disciplinary Map in East-Central Europe. International seminar organized by The Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusettes, USA, and the Art Academy, Institute of Art and the Masaryk University & the Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic, Brno, 2010, Nov. 18 -19. Core member
Book launch of Gender Check: Reader. Art and Theory in Eastern Europe, edited by Bojana Pejic & Erste Foundation & Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, and workshop. MUMOK, Wien, 2010 Nov. 19. http://erstestiftung.org/gender-check/hungary-edit-andras/
“Remembrance, erasure, and constructing of the historical past. Rites of passages from Socialism into nationalism in the ex-East bloc.” Erste Stiftung Patterns_lectures project, University of Arts, Iasi, Romania, 2010, Nov. 4. Invited lecturer http://www.arteiasi.ro/ita/index.php?
Zone research program, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2010, May 3-6. Invited lecturer
2010-2011Unfolding Narratives: Art Histories in East-Central Europe after 1989. East-Central Europe Seminar Series 2010-2011. (Tallinn, Brno, Bucharest / member of the core group) The Clark Art Institute, Research, and Academic program, Williamstown, USA
2009“Differencing the Canon. Panel discussion with Griselda Pollock.” Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe symposium, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
“Monuments, Monolits, Monsters.” Frieze Talk. Frieze Art Fair, London http://www.friezefoundation.org/talks/detail/cac_vilnius_presents_memories_monoliths_monsters/
2008„Builders. The Future is Behind Us” lecture in the framework of the international platform Art Always Has Its Consequences, Museum Sztuki, Lódz (picture link)
2007Conceptual Art at the Crossroads. No. 3. Art and Revolution. SocialEast. Forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK, presenter
2006Who Owns the Boundaries? Conference and book presentation Art after Conceptual Art, MIT and Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria, author’s presentation
In between Globalizing Powers invited lecturer by the AICA Turkey, Istambul, Pera Museum, invited lecturer (picture link)
2005Art Education = Controlling Art Community? 19. Annual Conference of School of Visual Arts, New York, presenter
A workshop dedicated to the art scene of the Balkan, organized by Tranzit Vienna, Innsbruck, Austria
2004“Blind Spots of the New Critical Theory” Conference The Art and Media of Accession. Trans_european Picnic, Novi Sad, Serbia (picture link)
2003“All that Glitters is not Gold. Local Artists within Global Framework” CAA (College Art Association) Annual Conference, New York
2001Keynote speaker, “Who is Afraid of the New Critical Theory.” Annual AICA Conference Strategies of Power, Zagreb, Croatia
2000Workshop ‘Co-operation. International Forum for Feminist Art and Theory’ Dubrovnik, Croatia
1999“Gender Minefield as the Heritage of the Past” Conference After the Wall. Art and Culture in Post-Communist Europe, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
“Exclusion and Inclusion in the Art World” Conference Money / Nation, Shedhalle, Zurich
1998 “Strategies of Hungarian Women Artists” Conference Women and the Arts Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Co-Organizer, “Flirting with the body” at mini-conference Surviving Freedom: Visual Arts in Hungary since 1989, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.