Talks on Marginal Art
The Although women continue to fight for visibility and equality in all professions, within the world of art, paradoxically, they can also be marginal among marginals. The end of the Second World War was marked by the beginning of a specific avant-garde artistic tendency called Art Brut, which in different contexts and time periods was marked with different terminologies and meanings. The creativity of outsiders – mentally and physically ill people, self-taught creators, prisoners, people from the margins of society have become the subject of interest in “high” art, and even the art market. However, bearing in mind that even the field of Art Brut/Outsider Art is a predominantly male territory, the question of the existence of women within it inevitably arises. Discussion entitled “Women in Art Brut: outsiders among to outsiders” wants to shed light and bring it closer to the audience, not only this artistic tendency that is generally not given enough attention, but also the position, aesthetics and themes of the artistic practices of marginalised women. Conceived as a dynamic form of presentations and discussions, the discussion aims to present the past and present situation, both in our country and in Western Europe and the Far East.
Almost eighty years after the movement Art Brut got its name, it seems to be increasingly challenging to understand it based exclusively on its original definitions, aesthetics, and a myriad of names and subforms. Can terms Art Brut, Outsider art, Naïve Art, Raw Art, and others still function in a context that has been considered socially, politically, and artistically transformed since the movement’s emergence? Who is an Art Brut artist? Who has the right to engage in Art Brut? What is Art Brut in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East? Is there Art Brut in Austria outside Gugging? Is there a feminist dimension of Art Brut and how is it represented? What makes Art Brut attractive to the art market? Daniela Bilopavlović Bedenik, Head of Collection of Outsider Art, Museum of Contemporary Zagreb Işıl Ezgi Çelik, Art Brut Researcher, capitArt London Johann Feilacher, Artistic Director, Museum Gugging Florian Reese, Head of Atelier 10, Vienna Goran Stojčetović, Artist, President of Art Brut Serbia, Belgrade Moderation: Amalija Stojsavljević, Curator, Verein Kunstentropie Vienna (cooperation partner) WIENWOCHE in collaboration with Kunstentropie.
On misconceptions of Art Brut and Outsider Art.
On Deleuzian concept of Art and Art Brut in late capitalist era.
Kelimat Art Brut Museum 5 Story Exhibition Opening Speech on Art Brut.