Was ist Kunst, IRWIN?: HMKV 2023/2

This volume is published to mark the 40th anniversary of the artists’ collective Rrose Irwin Sélavy and to accompany the exhibition at HMKV Dortmund. Since 1983, IRWIN has been investigating the art history of Eastern Europe, especially the ambivalent legacy of the historical avant—garde and its totalitarian successors, i.e. the dialectic of avant—garde and totalitarianism. Since the 1990s, the focus of the group h...