Cultural Transfer: Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture in Transnational Movement
Cultural Transfer: Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture in Transnational Movement is an open symposium on cultural transfer from a broad and multifaceted perspective.
Models wearing Simultanist clothing in front of a Simultanist Citroen designed by Sonia Delaunay, 1925. © French National Library
The notion of cultural transfer includes transnational migration of individuals and objects as well as artistic styles, ideas, methods, or discourses. Cultural transfer may also refer to the political and cultural effects and challenges related to diverse forms of migration.
The symposium focuses on cultural exchanges and transnational contacts in relation to diverse empirical materials, historical periods, and theoretical perspectives. The papers address issues related to artistic and cultural mobility across national borders, transnational networks, stylistic transformations, or constructions of individual and collective identities and ideas.
Organisers: Andrea Kollnitz and Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe
RVSP by 17 April to:
jessica.skrubbe@arthistory.su.se
Programme
| 09:00–09:30 | Welcome |
| 09:30–10:00 | Malin Holdar: “’And in the middle of it all sits Hyland…’ The televised introduction of Happenings in Sweden” |
| 10:00–10:30 | Jessica Fröberg: “Early 16th-century transports of altarpieces through Northern Europe” |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee |
| 11:00–11:30 | Catharina Nolin: “Asian gardens in Sweden – expressions of material culture and cultural encounters” |
| 11:30–12:00 | Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe: “Gendering the geohistory of Swedish modern art” |
| 12:00–13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30–15:00 | Marsha Meskimmon: Transcanons: On Writing Transhemispheric Art’s Histories. Key note address + Q/A. |
| 15:00–15:30 | Coffee |
| 15:30–16:30 | Andrea Kollnitz and Kristoffer Noheden: “Surrealism in Sweden: A Transcultural Phenomenon” |
| 16:30–17:00 | Concluding discussion |
Last updated: 2026-03-04
Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics