Maja and Reuben Fowkes are curators and art historians whose work focuses on the theory and aesthetics of East European art from the art production of the socialist era to contemporary artistic responses to the transformations brought by globalisation. They are curators of the exhibition series Revolution Trilogy, the transnational SocialEast Seminars on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe and the interdisciplinary Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art at Central European University Budapest. Their most recent exhibition Loophole to Happinessdeals with the possibility for freedom and creativity on the margins of social systems and was shown at venues in Budapest, Lodz, Prague and Bratislava in 2010-11. Their contribution to recent thinking on art and ecology has also included feature articles in the art magazines Artecontexto and Verge, and a lecture series on the sustainability of biennial culture. In 2010 their contribution to the field of East European art history was recognised with a grant from the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory.

fowkes@translocal.org