Maja and Reuben Fowkes

Maja and Reuben Fowkes are curators and contemporary art historians working from Budapest and London, whose work focuses on the theory and aesthetics of East European art from the art production of the socialist era to contemporary artistic responses to the transformations brought by globalisation. Their research on issues of art and ecology, which has looked at the ecological footprint of contemporary art, the roots of sustainability in the radical art of the 1970s, and the sustainability of biennial culture, has been published in book chapters, catalogue essays and journal articles. Their curated shows include the Revolution Trilogy (2006-2009) and most recently Loophole to Happiness (2010-2011). An archive of their collaborative projects and publications is indexed at www.translocal.org. They also run the SocialEast Forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe and the Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art at Central European University Budapest. In 2010 their work was recognised with a grant from the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory.

fowkes@translocal.org