This presentation examines the Cold War art scene beyond the US-Soviet rivalry, focusing on cultural diplomacy and the mobility between Czechoslovakia and the Global South. It explores the lived experiences and artistic production of art students from the Global South who studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts between 1968 and 1989. Taking a transcultural approach, it incorporates oral histories and analyzes socialist art academies as contact zones, seeking to shed light on the role of artistic exchange during the Cold War.

Anna-Marie Kroupová is currently a prae doc university assistant at the Chair for Cultural Heritage and a research associate at the Belvedere, Vienna. Her research focuses on transcultural exchange and political aspects of art in the Central European region.

Das Global History Colloquium ist eine Veranstaltung des Forschungsschwerpunkts Globalgeschichte (FSP Global History) der Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät.