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Publication: “Die neuen Graswurzel-Avantgarde”, Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte
Volume XVIII/2 of the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte includes an article by Jörg Scheller about “the new grassroots avant-gardes”. The text discusses individuals and groups researched within the framework of Contemporary Art, Popular Culture, and Peacebuilding in Eastern Europe, including Daniel Rycharski (Poland) and Oberliht (Republic of Moldova).
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The research project featured in “Horizonte. Das Schweizer Forschungsmagazin”
Jörg Scheller spoke with the Swiss National Science Foundation’s magazine about our research in (Central) Eastern Europe: “When people can openly address conflicts and criticise them, then things are generally more peaceful there than elsewhere.” Link to the article
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The Living Room
The Living Room is a project to support Armenian refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh, which was set up in June 2024 and is scheduled to run until July 2026. As part of the activities of our project partner Artasfoundation in Armenia, the Living Room was set up as a central place for collaboration between the researcher Rana
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Art, Activism, Antagonism?
During a field trip to Chișinău in May 2025, Rada Leu co-hosted a public discussion with our project partner Oberliht under the title Art, Activism, Antagonism? The event took place at Zpațiu and was one of two public discussions which will lead up to a symposium planned for July 2025. In the first of these
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Embodying Transformation Through the Arts
On May 6th 2024, a case study on Contemporary Art and Peacebuilding in Armenia was presented at the Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development 2024. In collaboration with the Berghof Foundation and the Centre for Social Change Nepal, we organised the workshop “Embodying Transformation through the Arts”. It aimed at exploring a holistic understanding of social change
The research project Contemporary Art, Popular Culture and Peacebuilding in Eastern Europe is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation and based at Zurich University of the Arts. The project examines the potential and limitations of contemporary art and popular culture for peacebuilding in three (Central) Eastern European countries: Poland, Moldova, and Armenia. Recognising a gap in peace studies, which often overlook Eastern Europe, the project aims to connect the arts with peacebuilding by exploring three different types of conflict.
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