Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism
2017, Sep 1 — Oct 3
What is more immortal than the idea of eternal life? Russian Cosmism around 1900 imagined nothing less than an overcoming of death. An HKW-wide exhibition and a conference explore the ideas of this movement, which despite its great influence on Russian art, scholarship, and politics, has been almost entirely forgotten, and consider their contemporary relevance.
Cosmism, Universalism, Contemporary Art
Final Discussion, Sep 8, 2017 Original version
Trevor Paglen: Forget Fedorov
Lecture, Sep 7, 2017 Original version
Arseny Zhilyaev: Optimists of the Future Past Perfect
Lecture, Sep 7, 2017 Original version
Michael Hagemeister: Nikolai Fedorov’s Project of Universal Salvation and “Russian Cosmism”
Lecture, Sep 7, 2017 Original version
Anastasia Gacheva: Overcoming Death through Art: From Nikolai Fedorov to the Cosmists of the 1920s
Lecture, Sep 7, 2017
Immortality for All! | Hito Steyerl & Anton Vidokle
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Anton Vidokle and Hito Steyerl in conversation
Optimists of the Future Past Perfect | Arseny Zhilyaev
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Talk by Arseny Zhilyaev
Cosmism, Universalism, Contemporary Art: Discussion with Hito Steyerl, Anton Vidokle, Arseny Zhilyaev, Trevor Paglen, Anselm Franke
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Discussion, moderated by Anselm Franke
Forget Fedorov | Trevor Paglen
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Talk by Trevor Paglen
How to Keep Communism Aloft: Labor, Energy and the Model Cosmos in Soviet Cinema | Robert Bird
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Talk by Robert Bird
The Stofflichkeit of the Universe: Aleksandr Bogdanov and the Soviet Avant-garde | Maria Chehonadskih
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Talk by Maria Chehonadskih
Cosmic Themes in Early Soviet Culture: Discussion with Robert Bird, Maria Chehonadskih, Svetlana Cheloukhina, moderated by Anne Luther
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Discussion, moderated by Anne Luther
Contingency and Necessity in Evald Ilyenkov’s Communist Cosmology | Alexei Penzin
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Talk by Alexei Penzin
Anagogy in Cosmism and Communism | Keti Chukhrov
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Talk by Keti Chukhrov
Russian Cosmism: A Foretaste of Revolution | Marina Simakova
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Talk by Marina Simakova
Cosmism and Social Progress: Discussion with Keti Chukhrov, Alexei Penzin, and Marina Simakova
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Disucssion, moderated by Margarete Vöhringer
Abolishing Death: Nikolai Zabolotsky’s Nature-Philosophical Poetry and Russian Cosmism | Svetlana Cheloukhina
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Talk by Svetlana Cheloukhina
Cosmism, Universalism, Contemporary Art: Discussion with Hito Steyerl, Anton Vidokle, Arseny Zhilyaev, and Trevor Paglen (German)
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Discussion, moderated by Anselm Franke German translation
Optimists of the Future Past Perfect | Arseny Zhilyaev (German)
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Talk by Arseny Zhilyaev German translation
Forget Fedorov | Trevor Paglen (German)
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Talk by Trevor Paglen German translation