Forms of Resistance was curated by the authors of Art and Social Change: A Critical Reader (with a hand from the hosting museum director) and displayed at the Van Abbemuseum in a show that ran for three months, closing approximately one year ago.  From their statement:

The exhibition draws on four historical events: the Paris Commune (1871), the Russian Revolution (1917), the Prague Spring (May ’68) and the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989). This division does not pretend to be historically exhaustive but shows how resistance through the centuries has been repeated and revived, and has not been merely limited to social problems of a national nature.

Frieze Magazine called it “a canonical effort” that “succeeded in showing that it is possible to render substantially differing approaches – to form, futurist thinking and empowering mobilization – part of one whole.”

I would very much like to see this exhibit come to the United States!

Via Cultural Identities and Social Movements.

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