The Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art is a platform for transnational research into East European art and ecology that operates across the disciplinary boundaries of art history, contemporary art and ecological thought. 

Co-Director

Reuben Fowkes

Dr Reuben Fowkes is co-director of the
Post-socialist Art Centre (PACT) at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL and co-founder of Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art. His publications include Art and Climate Change (Thames & Hudson, 2022), Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950 (Thames & Hudson, 2020), Ilona Németh: Eastern Sugar (Sternberg Press, 2021) and a special issue of Third Text on ‘Actually Existing Artworlds of Socialism’ (2018). Recent curatorial projects include the exhibitions ‘Colliding Epistemes’ at Bozar Brussels (2022) and ‘Potential Agrarianisms’ at Kunsthalle Bratislava (2021). He is a research fellow in the Horizon Europe / UK Research and Innovation supported project Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA).

Co-Director

Maja Fowkes

Dr Maja Fowkes is co-director of the
Post-socialist Art Centre (PACT) at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL and co-founder of Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art. Her publications include Art and Climate Change (Thames & Hudson, 2022), Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950 (Thames & Hudson, 2020), Ilona Németh: Eastern Sugar (Sternberg Press, 2021) and The Green Bloc: Neo-avant-garde Art and Ecology under Socialism (CEU Press, 2015). Recent curatorial projects include the exhibitions ‘Colliding Epistemes’ at Bozar Brussels (2022) and ‘Potential Agrarianisms’ at Kunsthalle Bratislava (2021). She is Principal Research Fellow for the Horizon Europe / UK Research and Innovation supported project Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA).

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Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art
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