About the Author

Annika Öhrner is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Art History, School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University. In 2010, she defended her dissertation Barbro Östlihn & New York, at Uppsala University, published by Makadam. It deals with a painter who worked in New York in a neo-avantgarde context, as well as with issues of transfer of American pop art to Sweden. Her research scope also includes the classical avant-garde. Öhrner was Dean of the Valand Academy, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, Gothenburg University, 1996-2001. She has curated numerous exhibitions, for example retrospectives of Meret Oppenheim (2004) and Siri Derkert (2011) at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Öhrner is working presently within the research project Art, culture, conflict: transformations of museums and memory culture in the Baltic Sea region after 1989, funded by The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies. Piotr Piotrowski (June 1952-May 2015) was a long-time Professor Ordinarius at the Art History Department, Adam Mickiewicz University, in Poznan, Poland, which he had been chairing between 1999 and 2008. He was Research Fellow of the Graduate School for East and South-East European Studies, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität, München/Regensburg Universität. Piotrowski was also the co-editor of the annual journal Artium Quaestiones (1994-2009), Director of the National Museum in Warsaw, 2009-2010, and Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Museum in Poznan, 1992-1997. His visiting professorships include Humboldt University (2011-2012), Warsaw University (2011, 2012-2013), the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College USA (2001), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2003). He was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Washington D.C. (1989- 1990), Columbia University, NYC (1994), the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ (2000), Collegium Budapest (2005-2006), and the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (2009) among other institutions. He is the author of over a dozen books including: Meanings of Modernism (Polish 1999, 2011), In the Shadow of Yalta. Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, (Polish 2005, English 2009, Croatian 2011), Art after Politics (Polish 2007), Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe (Polish 2010, English 2012), and Critical Museum (Polish 2011, Serbian 2013), as well as editor, co-editor or co-author of many others. For his scholarly achievements, Professor Piotrowski received among others the Jan Dlugosz Award (Krakow 2006), and the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory (Barcelona 2010), among others. Mathilde Arnoux is a Research Director at the Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art in Paris, and PI of the project To Each His Own Reality: The Notion of the Real in the Art of France, West Germany, East Germany and Poland Between 1960 and 1989 (funded by the ERC Starting Grant Program). Focusing on the artistic exchanges in Europe in the XIXth-XXth century Arnoux has published La peinture allemande dans les musées français 1871-1981, Paris, 2007 and, with Anne Panzani and Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Correspondance entre Henri Fantin-Latour Otto Scholderer, Paris, 392 2011. Arnoux's research currently deals with cross-cultural analyses of Cold War Europe. On this subject, she has published various articles in Etudes Germaniques, Perspectives, Revue de l'art, Art beyond borders in communist Europe (1945-1989), ed. by J. Bazin, P. Dubourg-Glatigny and P. Piotrowski, and online Lettres du Séminaire Arts & Sociétés de Laurence Bertrand-Dorléac, Sciences Po, www.artsetsocietes.org/f/farnout. html, in M. Gispert, M. Murphy (ed.), Voir, ne pas voir. Les expositions en question, actes de journées d'étude Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne - HiCSA et INHA, 2014, http: //hicsa.univ-paris1.fr/documents/file/ Arnoux.pdf