Married Women, Karolina Bregula, 2005
This week marks fifty years since the signing of the Treaty of Rome, the founding document of the European Economic Community. In London, the Festival of Europe is staging a series of debates and discussions to mark the anniversary, looking at the wider cultural, philosophical and artistic questions that face members of the expanding Union.
One of these events, "Looking East: Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe", brought together art curators from Romania, the Czech Republic and Poland to discuss how artists from eastern Europe are negotiating their new European identity in the context of their regional political history. openDemocracy's Siobhan O'Connell attended and afterwards talked to two of the participants, Polish art curators Tomek Kitlinski and Pawel Leszkowicz, about the debate. First, she asked Pawel about the background to his most recent exhibition staged in Gdansk called Love and Democracy...
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