Exhibiting Contemporary Art in the Early 1990s Nordic-Baltic Realm.

This article investigates exhibitions of Baltic contemporary art in the Early 1990s, that were directed towards an international audience. Notions of an art life finally freed from the heavy institutional power of the Soviet occupation has served to obscure the arrival of other international and political presences, the ones from Norden. While new Baltic art practices were widely made public in the three Baltic capitals after 1991, the fact that the highest political level of Nordic foreign policy provided an infrastructure for this, was not. "The Nordic-Baltic realm," is here suggested as a notion of interactions between the contemporary art and foreign diplomacy, and the ability to act upon the potential of the other's experienced "window of opportunity." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I artikeln undersöks utställningar av baltisk samtidskonst i början av 1990-talet, riktade mot en internationell publik. Nya konstpraktiker presenterades i utställningar i och från de tre baltiska huvudstäderna efter 1991, medan det faktum att den högsta politiska nivån i nordisk utrikespolitik gav en infrastruktur för detta varit mindre känt. "The Nordic-Baltic realm" föreslås som ett begrepp för det rum där interaktioner mellan samtidskonst och utländsk diplomati under 1990-talet skedde, utifrån deras inbördes förmåga att agera utifrån den erfarna potentialen av ett "möjlighetsfönster" hos den andre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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