Dissidents and Wanderers: Wim Beeren’s Exhibitions of Eastern European Art at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Journal: Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University)
Year: 2020

This thesis examines two exhibitions of Eastern European art organized by Wim Beeren during his directorship of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The first of these, In the USSR and Beyond (21st of September 1990 – 4th of November 1990), was the first large-scale exhibition of Soviet art at a museum in the Netherlands and was intended to introduce artists from the USSR to the Stedelijk’s Western European audience. It was also remarkably early, having taken place before the Soviet Union itself coll