Heroes We Love

https://heroeswelove.wordpress.com/

HEROES WE LOVE. Ideology, Identity and Socialist Art in New Europe
2015–2017

Heroes We Love. Ideology, Identity and Socialist Art in New Europe is a collaborative, multidisciplinary project on the (still controversial) topic of socialist heritage of the 20th century European art. It brings together partners from institutional and non-institutional sectors from Central and South-Eastern Europe. The project is aimed at connecting contemporary art practices with research works and involvement with the audiences on the phenomenon of socialist art in its cultural, social-ideological and political context, spanning the period from the inception of the communist/socialist states of Eastern Europe until today. It boldly exposes the geo-political term ‘New Europe’ and encompasses the region from Poland to Albania in a joint transnational project.

'Heroes' brings together eight partners from Central and Southeastern Europe, from Poland to Albania: Maribor Art Gallery (leading partner); BLOK Association (CRO); Tirana Art Lab (Albania); Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk (Poland); IEFSEM Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Sofia (Bulgaria); Museum of Yugoslav History (SRB); University of Primorska (SLO); Cultural Association Center plesa, Maribor (SLO).

For more information about upcoming exhibitions, international conferences, art interventions in public space and workshops follow our official Heroes We Love webpage that is regularly updated with past, current and future projects. As part of the Heroes We Love project Maribor Art Gallery presented Exhibition Heroes We Love  - Socialist realism revised / Case study: ex-Yugoslavia and International Conference: Art That Changes the World: culture, politics, identity.

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We kindly invite all Instagram users to upload images or videos depicting Yugoslav and other socialist heritage – from sculpture and painting to architecture and design – to Instagram with the hashtag #HeroesWeLove.

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