Yuka Kadoi
I am an art historian, art historiographer, museologist and cultural theorist. During my solid academic training in Japan and Scotland, I studied both Eastern and Western traditions of Oriental Studies, namely East Asian History (Toyoshi) in Kyoto and Islamic Studies in Edinburgh, as well as several traditions of Art History - not only the western-defined canon in the fine art, but also Chinese art and Middle Eastern art. This unusual educational background has taken me to a circuitous academic path, yet this has also given me such an invaluable opportunity to experiment with new ideas to implement new methodologies, in order to shape my own field. With the focus on socio-cultural mobility and materiality, I have been researching the art and material culture of the Persian cultural world after the 7th century or broadly the heritage of itinerant people. My research topics range from the artistic exchanges between the Islamic Middle East and East Asia under the Mongols, the Timurids and beyond, Islamisation / Persianisation in the arts of East Asia, the history of Persian art scholarship and connoisseurship in the early 20th century to the museum and Islamic / Asian art in contemporary times. I am currently running an FWF-sponsored project on the historiography of Persian art 1900-1945, a subject of my next single-authored monograph. A recipient of FWF Lise Meitner Award (M2428-G25) & FWF Elise Richter Award (V-995), named after Vienna-born female scientists who lost their academic positions due to antisemitic measures designed to exclude people of Jewish origin from public life in the 1930s.
Address: https://persicacentropa.univie.ac.at/
Address: https://persicacentropa.univie.ac.at/
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Saidi-Sirjani Book Award, Honorable Mention, 2010, Association for Iranian Studies (formerly, International Society for Iranian Studies).
Edited volumes
Available on OAPEN for viewing and downloading free:
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87367
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Rather than centring on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museums, Collecting Asian Art turns to museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe which emerged from the late 19th century onwards. Highlighting the dimensions of Central European connectedness, this volume explores how these collections evolved and changed under changing cultural and political conditions from the pre-World War I to the post-World War II periods. With a primary focus on collections of East and South Asian art in Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Warsaw, Cracow, Budapest, and Ljubljana, it outlines the transregional connections and networks that gradually developed.
Collecting Asian Art locates Asian art across the twentieth-century in Central Europe via discourse and ideology, and discusses key collections and the way individual collectors built their networks. It thus explores transregional connections that developed through collecting activities and strategies in the prewar, interwar and postwar eras. Contributors also examine the personal connections between a group of Indologists from postwar Prague and modernist Indian artists from the early 1950s to the 1980s and also discuss the systematic archiving of East Asian art collections in Slovenia. A concluding conversation looks at colonisation and decolonisation from a broader perspective by approaching it through recent art historical discussions on the global dimensions of modernism. By defining the region through its external relationships and its entanglements with regions across Asia rather than as a self-contained unit, the contributions in this volume outline how these transregional connections and networks evolved and changed over time, thus highlighting their singularity in comparison to developments in Western Europe. Based on recent research, Collecting Asian Art reveals neglected sources while reinterpreting well-known ones.
Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies
Contact: Oroszi Gyöngyi
Tel.: + 36 (06) 26 375 329 / 414 / E-mail: oroszi@avicenna-kkki.hu
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As a sequel to The Shaping of Persian Art (2013), the essays in this volume examine the historiography of the highly variable concept of "Persian art" which has developed in parallel with museums and art scholarship during the 19th and 20th centuries. With contributions by Joachim Gierlichs; Elika Palenzona-Djalili; Irina Koshoridze; Irina Gugunava; Natia Demurishvili; Yuka Kadoi; Daria Vasilyeva; Elena Paskaleva; Iván Szántó; Zehra Tonbul.
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http://avicenna-kkki.hu/kiadvanyaink/acta-et-studia/the-reshaping-of-persian-art/?lang=en
Exhibition catalogues
Interviewed: CNN (by Isambard Wilkinson; https://www.cnn.com/style/article/how-the-color-blue-changed-art-forever).
Guest-edited Journals
contributors of this thematic issue including Yuka Kadoi, Nikolaos Vryzidis, Alberto Saviello and Simone Wille.
Chapters in books
https://lup.be/book/collecting-asian-art/
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Based on the paper given to the International conference, Collecting Asian Art in Prague: Cultural Politics and Transcontinental Networks in 20th-century Central Europe, National Gallery Prague, 17-18 June, 2021.
https://www.ngprague.cz/en/event/3092/collecting-asian-art-in-prague-conference
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Please leave the message for requesting a full copy of the article proofs.
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Based on the paper given to the International conference, The Mongols and Global History, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies, 10-11 December 2018.
https://itatti.harvard.edu/event/mongols-and-global-history-international-conference
*Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2020 (The Most Beautiful German Books 2020)*
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Conceptual artist He Xiangyu has developed projects that take as their subject the goods and products that symbolize the mass production and consumption of the world while evoking the state of contemporary Chinese society. For his Coca-Cola Project, (2009 – 2012), the artist spent over a year simmering down a 127-ton batch of Coca- Cola, and transformed the black, charcoal-like substance that was extracted from this process into an apocalyptic installation. The Lemon Project, started in 2016, turns towards the practice of scientific research to produce an encyclopedic collection of the multitude of meanings and functions of lemons and the color yellow, leading him to immerse himself in the abyss of historical, psychological, medical, and cultural meanings associated with the color yellow. The book in a Japanese binding includes essays on the color yellow. On the inside of the uncut pages are more than 500 of He Xiangyu`s drawings entitled “Research on Yellow.”
Saidi-Sirjani Book Award, Honorable Mention, 2010, Association for Iranian Studies (formerly, International Society for Iranian Studies).
Available on OAPEN for viewing and downloading free:
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87367
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Rather than centring on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museums, Collecting Asian Art turns to museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe which emerged from the late 19th century onwards. Highlighting the dimensions of Central European connectedness, this volume explores how these collections evolved and changed under changing cultural and political conditions from the pre-World War I to the post-World War II periods. With a primary focus on collections of East and South Asian art in Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Warsaw, Cracow, Budapest, and Ljubljana, it outlines the transregional connections and networks that gradually developed.
Collecting Asian Art locates Asian art across the twentieth-century in Central Europe via discourse and ideology, and discusses key collections and the way individual collectors built their networks. It thus explores transregional connections that developed through collecting activities and strategies in the prewar, interwar and postwar eras. Contributors also examine the personal connections between a group of Indologists from postwar Prague and modernist Indian artists from the early 1950s to the 1980s and also discuss the systematic archiving of East Asian art collections in Slovenia. A concluding conversation looks at colonisation and decolonisation from a broader perspective by approaching it through recent art historical discussions on the global dimensions of modernism. By defining the region through its external relationships and its entanglements with regions across Asia rather than as a self-contained unit, the contributions in this volume outline how these transregional connections and networks evolved and changed over time, thus highlighting their singularity in comparison to developments in Western Europe. Based on recent research, Collecting Asian Art reveals neglected sources while reinterpreting well-known ones.
Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies
Contact: Oroszi Gyöngyi
Tel.: + 36 (06) 26 375 329 / 414 / E-mail: oroszi@avicenna-kkki.hu
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As a sequel to The Shaping of Persian Art (2013), the essays in this volume examine the historiography of the highly variable concept of "Persian art" which has developed in parallel with museums and art scholarship during the 19th and 20th centuries. With contributions by Joachim Gierlichs; Elika Palenzona-Djalili; Irina Koshoridze; Irina Gugunava; Natia Demurishvili; Yuka Kadoi; Daria Vasilyeva; Elena Paskaleva; Iván Szántó; Zehra Tonbul.
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http://avicenna-kkki.hu/kiadvanyaink/acta-et-studia/the-reshaping-of-persian-art/?lang=en
Interviewed: CNN (by Isambard Wilkinson; https://www.cnn.com/style/article/how-the-color-blue-changed-art-forever).
contributors of this thematic issue including Yuka Kadoi, Nikolaos Vryzidis, Alberto Saviello and Simone Wille.
https://lup.be/book/collecting-asian-art/
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Based on the paper given to the International conference, Collecting Asian Art in Prague: Cultural Politics and Transcontinental Networks in 20th-century Central Europe, National Gallery Prague, 17-18 June, 2021.
https://www.ngprague.cz/en/event/3092/collecting-asian-art-in-prague-conference
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Please leave the message for requesting a full copy of the article proofs.
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Based on the paper given to the International conference, The Mongols and Global History, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies, 10-11 December 2018.
https://itatti.harvard.edu/event/mongols-and-global-history-international-conference
*Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2020 (The Most Beautiful German Books 2020)*
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Conceptual artist He Xiangyu has developed projects that take as their subject the goods and products that symbolize the mass production and consumption of the world while evoking the state of contemporary Chinese society. For his Coca-Cola Project, (2009 – 2012), the artist spent over a year simmering down a 127-ton batch of Coca- Cola, and transformed the black, charcoal-like substance that was extracted from this process into an apocalyptic installation. The Lemon Project, started in 2016, turns towards the practice of scientific research to produce an encyclopedic collection of the multitude of meanings and functions of lemons and the color yellow, leading him to immerse himself in the abyss of historical, psychological, medical, and cultural meanings associated with the color yellow. The book in a Japanese binding includes essays on the color yellow. On the inside of the uncut pages are more than 500 of He Xiangyu`s drawings entitled “Research on Yellow.”
https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/transcultural/article/view/24842
https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/transcultural/article/view/24805
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Published as "Buddhism in Iran under the Mongols: an art-historical analysis", in Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies, eds. Tomasz Gacek and Jadwiga Pstrusińska (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2009), pp. 171-80. The main text and footnotes of the current version have been lightly copy-edited, with a list of further references on this subject as an appendix below, while illustrations have been removed due to the shortage of space.
Some of the contents of this article were presented at the international conference,
The Mongols and Religions, at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 16-17 May 2019.
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/iran/veranstaltungen/event-details/article/the-mongols-and-religions/
Further information:
https://jch.history.ox.ac.uk/event/workshop-jewish-collectors-and-patterns-taste-c1850-1930
This is a closed event. Enquiries should be addressed in the first instance to the project office:
https://jch.history.ox.ac.uk/contact
來自波斯的瑰麗藝術),
Liang Yi Museum, 181-199 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong.
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm. Closed on Sundays, Mondays and Public Holidays.
Free of charge, but appointments are required (e-mail: visitors@liangyimuseum.com). Visit the website for further information:
http://www.liangyimuseum.com/en/143/special-exhibitions
Conference website: https://melbourne2024.artmarketstudies.org/
Registration (in person / online): https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/7th-annual-conference-of-the-international-art-market-studies-association-tickets-885991072147
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Panel "Multiple Art Markets across Diverse Artworlds"
Thursday, 11 July 2024
9:00 am 11:00 am (AEST)
Arts West Building, North Wing, Room 356, University of Melbourne
Royal ParadeParkville, VIC, 3052
Panel website: https://melbourne2024.artmarketstudies.org/panels/11-jul-9am-rm1
Further information: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veranstaltungen/event-details/the-cultural-history-of-late-pahlavi-iran
Panel: Material Topologies
Monday 24 June 2024
9:00-10:30 AM
Salle Saint-Clair 3B
Centre de Congrès de Lyon
https://openagenda.com/en/ciha-2024/events/material-topologies-anthropological-and-cultural-approaches-for-a-sensible-dimension-of-artistic-materials-12
For further information:
https://eikones.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/event-details/critical-dislocations-art-geography-method/
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Lecture Series
11 March 2024
Classroom 3-133 and live stream (extra links below)
18:00 (EST)
with Dr. Yuka Kadoi (University of Vienna)
"Building Mosques in the Eastern Periphery of the Muslim World, ca. 1930s"
Further information about the lecture:
https://architecture.mit.edu/events/yuka-kadoi
Livestream link:
https://mit.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=698629ed-f298-4019-b549-b11e0162a229
Thursday 13 October 2023, 6:00 pm
James-Simon-Galerie Auditorium
Bodestraße, 10178 Berlin
https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/lost-found-or-vanished-2023-10-13-180000-139506/
This evening lecture will take place as part of the research workshop, "Erwerbungen und Provenienzen islamischer Kunst zwischen 1933 und 1945: Aktuelle Forschung und Vernetzung", Archaeological Centre, Berlin, 13-14 October 2023.
For further information about this workshop:
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-138799
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
Seminar Series
13 September 2023
15:30 - 17:00
with Dr. Yuka Kadoi (University of Vienna)
"Islamic Art and the Museum - Prospects for the 21st Century"
(in Japanese)
https://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/news.php?id=FriAug41021042023
https://www.facebook.com/neprajzimuzeum/posts/pfbid0ZaVw9yRDQ7RAmjxU1aMnLCdXZ39SHNvP5QzpUL63M4yS4buVWX2fdg317rGXuZAWl
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https://iismm.hypotheses.org/83236
This is a closed event.
Further information: https://events.ceu.edu/2023-05-19/art-and-power-medieval-societies-censorship-propaganda-and-public-service-eastern
Wednesday 12 October 2022, 11:00 pm
Institute for Advanced Study / Central European University (IAS-CEU) Wednesday Seminar Series
Nádor u. 15, Room 103 (Tiered Room)
https://events.ceu.edu/index.php/2022-10-12/displaying-muslim-cultural-heritage-20-year-retrospect
Wednesday 20 July 2022
5pm (GMT)
Zoom Webinar
Registration:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/the-mobility-of-persian-artefacts-the-sanguszko-carpet-in-motion/
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Originally woven in Iran during the sixteenth century, one of the most celebrated classical Persian carpets to survive today — the “Sanguszko Carpet”, currently housed at the Miho Museum in Japan — made an extraordinary intercontinental journey. It found its way to Europe during the early modern period and continued its journey across the Atlantic Ocean in the early twentieth century; furthermore, it went on an odyssey across the Pacific Ocean afterwards. In this illustrated talk, Yuka Kadoi makes a fresh analysis of the sociocultural migratory journey of the Sanguszko Carpet, while shedding new light on the mechanisms of cross-continental object sharing and networking across different oceanic spheres.
Tuesday 14 June 2022, 7:15 pm
Public Lecture Series: DFG Research Training Group 1913
"Cultural and Technological Significance of Historic Buildings"
Building 2D, Zeichensaal (ground floor) & to be streamed online via Webex
Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg
If you are interested in attending online, please email Albrecht Wiesener (albrecht.wiesener(at)b-tu.de)
https://www.b-tu.de/en/dfg-graduiertenkolleg-1913/activities/public-lectures
In the public lectures of the Research Training Group ‘Cultural and Technological Significance of Historic Buildings’ at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, selected historical buildings are analysed as bearers of the architectural and technical achievements of their time as well as places of memory for building cultures of the past. In addition to reconstructing important phases of architectural history from antiquity to modern times, the current value of historic buildings is analysed; ‘Why do we place significance on certain historic buildings and not on others?’ and ‘What are the symbols and narratives that play a decisive role in this?’
Kolingasse 14-16
Seminarraum 5
1090 Vienna
Speakers include: Beáta Hock (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig / Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna), Georg Schöllhammer (tranzit.at), Dean Vuletic (Research Center for the History of Transformations, University of Vienna) and Yuka Kadoi (Institute of Art History, University of Vienna).
In person attendance: please email to: admin.thks@univie.ac.at
Online registration:
https://univienna.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJModuqhqj8vGtwj4U4NOclgfHj3-QuXzkIu
Further information: https://fakzen-thks.univie.ac.at/en/news/events/disciplines-in-motion/social-history-otherwise/
The engagement with art objects and cultural practices has the capacity to bring about innovative contributions to various other branches of historical scholarship. Such explorations inevitably transcend the disciplinary compartmentalisation of knowledge. Artistic and curatorial research are well capable of also winding down boundaries between academia and the world “out there”. Discussion participants will
draw on experience from their varying research fields to reflect on interdisciplinarity as a knowledge-seeking strategy and the promise of combining it with transnational approaches and collaborative working methods.
28 Apr 2021, 17:30 GMT.
The Warburg Institute, London.
https://bilderfahrzeuge.hypotheses.org/5320
Booking can be made here:
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24178
The 44th session of our annual series of Architectural Conservation Masterclasses at the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh.
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sccsmasterclass/tuesday-23-march-2021/
Free eventbrite registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/architectural-conservation-masterclasses-2021-32309908177
Booking queries: Ryan Buchanan, ryan.buchanan@ed.ac.uk
This paper is going to be incorporated into my book on Persian art historiography (in preparation).
Published as "Josef Strzygowski, ‘Das Problem der persischen Kunst’", Journal of Art Historiography, Number 21 (December, 2019): The Influence of the Vienna School of Art History before and after 1918 – Part 1, pp. 1-8.
https://arthistoriography.wordpress.com/
(UK/Europe)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Collecting-Asian-Art-Transregional-Twentieth-Century/dp/9462703787
(USA)
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9789462703780/collecting-asian-art/#bookTabs=1
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An introductory lecture on this project was given to the international conference, 'Influence of the Vienna School of Art History III: Origins, Modifications and Influences of Its Theoretical Concepts', Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, 19-20 April 2023.
https://www.udu.cas.cz/en/akce/the-vienna-school-of-art-history-iii
https://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/institutsnachrichten/armenien-und-persien/#c791623
https://persian-art.org/
Museumisation in Central Europe: Opportunities and Challenges
7-9 June 2023
ELTE and Museum of Ethnography
https://www.facebook.com/neprajzimuzeum/posts/pfbid0ZaVw9yRDQ7RAmjxU1aMnLCdXZ39SHNvP5QzpUL63M4yS4buVWX2fdg317rGXuZAWl
Overviewing various modes of public presentation in the past, this international conference seeks to consider in what ways multi-cultural collaborations, innovative exhibitions and collecting strategies can influence academic and public opinions on the future of museums in Central Europe. With the focus on artworks and objects that originally came from Asia and Africa, as well as those deemed to be viewed as non-European, it brings together museum professionals and educational experts to revisit the institutional history of museums and to map out new
directions in the public presentation of such artefacts against the complex historical and current political background of Central Europe. It is widely acknowledged, as much as the academic discourse of art history, museum displays have made a significant impact on our perception and definition of "Art", "Culture" and "Heritage" for the past decades. Recent curatorial strategies demonstrate that museums can and should radically alter traditional modes of viewing through innovative approaches to installation. Yet this debate so far remains largely concerned with institutions located in the cultural capitals of West Europe and North America.
Join an international workshop on the afternoon of Friday 29 October and morning of Saturday 30 October 2021.
Location: this is a hybrid (online and in-person) event, please register online using this link:
https://tiny.one/8ptejpdy
In-person participation remains limited. Please contact the organiser for further information (yuka.kadoi@univie.ac.at).
Participants must follow the safety guidelines to attend the workshop in person.
Patters of Migration: Trajectories of Persian Artefacts in the Pre-Modern Period
Friday 29 October 2021, 9:00-12:00 (CET)
Part of the international workshop (Persian Art: The Shifting of Objects, Images and Ideas in Early 20th Century Central Europe, 29-30 October 2021) organised by the research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) / Lise Meitner Programme (M2428-G25) in collaboration with the Institute of Art History, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna.
Join a pre-workshop seminar on the morning of Friday 29 October 2021.
Location: this is an online event, please register online using this link:
https://tiny.one/3y4cerw9
Please submit any questions to: persianconference2021@gmail.com
29-30 October 2021
Organised by the research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) / Lise Meitner Programme (M2428-G25) in collaboration with the Institute of Art History, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
For the preliminary programme and registration instructions, please send an email to:
persianconference2021@gmail.com
See also separate posts (seminar + workshop) in my academia.edu site (under "conference organisation").
National Gallery Prague, Salm Palace
https://www.ngprague.cz/en/event/3092/collecting-asian-art-in-prague-conference
Please send your registration request to: collectingasia@ngprague.cz
Organised by the Collection of Asian Art at the National Gallery Prague and the Austrian Science Fund’s (FWF) research project “Patterns of Transregional Trails” (P29536-G26)
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This conference looks at collections of Asian art in and outside Prague from the perspective of the national cultural politics interconnected with individual encounters as well as institutional cultural and diplomatic exchange in Central Europe during the 20th century. The focus will lie on collections of Asian art – hereby used as an umbrella term for East Asian, South-East Asian, South Asian, Central Asian and West Asian art. The location includes Prague and its neighbouring cultural centres in Central Europe, thereby allowing a comparison of the mechanisms of collecting and presentation across time and place in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Rather than viewing the collection as connected to a deterministic account of cultural flows through centers and peripheries, the conference will focus on international and transcontinental networks. It will look closely at the role these networks played in establishing the grounds for collecting, displaying and narrating Asian art in Central European museums, which were used as platforms for cultural diplomacy or propaganda. By revisiting historical entanglements and relational comparisons that connect Asia and Central Europe, the conference’s framework will focus on exhibitions, diplomatic exchange, and discursive aspects on art from Asia in the context of cultural politics.
This conference marks the one-hundredth birthday of Lubor Hájek (1921–2000), founder and director of the Oriental Department (a predecessor of today’s Collection of Asian Art) at the National Gallery Prague in 1951. Hájek was head of the collection until 1986. In memory of Lubor Hájek’s one-hundredth birthday, this conference will set out to revisit the rich collection of Asian art held by the National Gallery Prague and view it in connection with other Central European collections of Asian art. The timing of the conference also coincides with the collection’s move from the Kinsky Palace in the Old Town area of Prague to the Salm Palace at Hradčanské Square. By moving depots and reinstalling the exhibits in their new premises, the history of the collection and the question of museum mediation comes to the fore again.