KVI Open Lecture: Maria Stavrinaki „Art after History. The „Museum without walls“ as Model, 50s-70s“.

André Malraux’s Museum without Walls (1947) aims to “destroy” art history through the production of an eternal present of art in continuous metamorphosis. I will focus on the mimetic uses of Malraux’s Opus by various different artists in the 1950s and the 1960s, in order to show an important anti-historical shift not only in art, but also in the thought and politics of this period.
Maria Stavrinaki is Professor of history of contemporary art at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Lecture is held in collaboration between KVI and Estonian Doctoral school of humanities and Arts.