Time of the Storytellers: Narrative and Distant Gaze in Post-Soviet Art

HELSINKI, FINLAND

KIASMA

June 21-September30

Curated by Viktor Misiano

When Misiano organized the Venice Biennale's first-ever Central Asian Pavilion in 2005, his exhibition was revelatory for works evincing a geopolitical context in which modernism's legacy was anything but consigned to the history hooks. Indeed, artists negotiated the doulilc jeopardy of a stolen indigenous past and a lost Soviet future, producing intense work …