This paper proposes that contemporary painting is not only a field of incessant disciplinary and discursive battles over the essentially self-reflective question of “What is painting?” Over the last decades it has also become an intermedial laboratory where artists experiment with developing a connective aesthetic in the interface between painting and other media. Accordingly, it is has become a commonly held opinion that painting has transformed itself into an expanded field and thus renewed itself – again. This paper argues that in recent decades a remarkable number of painters have explored the possibility of developing painting by redefining what ‘space’ is in relation to painting. Much energy has been put into expanding painting physically by exploring painting’s relations to objects, space, place, and ‘the everyday’. The paper focuses on works of art that are conceived as an installation based on the medium of painting, including works by Slovak artists Dorota Sadovská and Daniel Fischer. Its discussion of the ways in which the transformation of painting into installation affects the relationship between the work and its contexts will ultimately lead to a consideration of how Slovak art is positioned in relation to the Western artworld understood as a system of centres and peripheries.

Proceedings from the seminar are to be published in English, Slovak and Czech by organisor and editor Jana Gerzová.

Indlæggene fra seminaret vil blive publiceret på engelsk, slovakisk og tjekkisk af Jana Gerzová.