Modernism around the world
Evening talks series
4 February 2025 6.30 - 7.45pm11 February 2025 6.30 - 7.45pm18 February 2025 6.30 - 7.45pm25 February 2025 6.30 - 7.45pm4 March 2025 6.30 - 7.45pm11 March 2025 6.30 - 7.45pm
Wolfson British Academy Room | Burlington Gardens
Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism
Join us for this 6-week talks series as we explore how modernism has taken shape around the world.
In the early 20th century, a new global art movement emerged: modernism. This movement centred on experimentation, abstraction, and the experience of the individual in the face of both industrialisation and globalisation.
This series of evening talks will take a fresh look at the modernist movement. Modernism has long been considered a movement of the Western avant-garde, with centres in Paris and New York disseminating its ideas across the globe. However, art historians have shown that there were multiple modernisms, developing and converging in centres around the world.
As we present an exhibition of Brazilian modernism in our main galleries, join us for an expanded view of the modernism movement. You’ll learn about artists working in Latin America, South and East Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. You’ll uncover modernism as a response to Communism in China; the influence of Soviet power; the ways in which African art has shaped Western European modernism; and the impact of Indigenous identity in the work of modernist artists in Brazil.
Talks are given by academics, curators and art-world professionals, with the opportunity for questions and discussion.
Minimum age 18. If you have any access requirements that you’d like to discuss, please contact public.programmes@royalacademy.org.uk.
If the event is sold out, please contact public.programmes@royalacademy.org.uk.