Stockholm city view over the Riddarholmen Island.

Photo: Jeppe Wikström / stockholmmediabank.com

The 2026 conference theme ‘Avant-Garde and Migration’ highlights migration as a key concept of historical as well as current relevance. Migration may be understood in geographical and sociopolitical terms, addressing the migrating actors and movements of modernism and the avant-garde in the 20th century, as well as the socio-cultural and geopolitical dynamics and crises of Europe and the world today.

Further the concept functions metaphorically, pointing at various kinds of displacements and transgressions, such as: the reframing of the concept of the avant-garde and other aesthetic-philosophical notions depending on different contexts; transgressions between genres, media and modes of expression realised through the activities of the avant-garde; the transnational interaction between movements, actors and networks et cetera; and the interdisciplinary nature of avantgarde studies, characterised by its 'migrating' academic identities and agents. 

Organisers

Professor of Art History Andrea Kollnitz
Professor of Art History Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe

Contact

eam10@su.se