12. Feb – 18. Apr 10 / begins tomorrow Nottingham Contemporary
Free
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary | Midlands
Valentina Tereshkova, a scene from Sovety v Kosmose. Photo by RIA Novosti
Pawel Althamer, Micol Assaël, Stano Filko, Diango Hernández, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Július Koller, Robert Kusmirowski, Goshka Macuga, Joanna Malinowska & Christian Tomaszewski, David Maljkovic, Aleksandra Mir, Deimantas NarkeviÄius, Otolith Group, Tobias Putrih, Jane and Louise Wilson
How was the future imagined under Communism – and why is that vision so important to us today? These are the questions that Star City, named after the USSR’s secret cosmonaut training base, sets out to explore.
It features the work of leading artists who grew up in the former Eastern Bloc and have emerged as international artists during the last decade – Althamer, Kusmirowski, Macuga, Mir. Star City also includes leading figures of the Eastern and Central European avant-garde from the 60s and 70s – Filko, Kabakov, Koller – together with other leading contemporary Western artists who have worked behind the former Iron Curtain – Jane and Louise Wilson, Otolith Group.
The 60s Space Race was a fierce propaganda battle between communism and capitalism, as much as a technological competition. Space in all its manifestations – technological, political, imaginary – is an important part of Star City.
http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/star-city
Via http://www.artrabbit.com/events/event/17118/star_city_the_future_under_communism