According to the press service of the Ministry of Culture, the event will be held in English as part of the exhibition "Another Landscape. Art, History, Ecology."
During the lecture, Dvaretskas will highlight the characteristics of the landscape genre in Kyrgyz art, exploring how socialist realism interacted with local ecological aspects and cultural motifs. She will note that the mood, color palette, and ornamentation created a unique artistic form that aligned with Soviet ideals while simultaneously strengthening Kyrgyz identity.
This lecture is also part of her dissertation research dedicated to Kazakh and Kyrgyz art.
Stephanie R. Dvaretskas serves as the co-curator of the exhibition "Another Landscape. Art, History, Ecology" and is a graduate student in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University. She is a fellow of the Dodge Avenir program at the Zimmerli Art Museum, where she studies the collection of nonconformist art from the Soviet Union assembled by Norton and Nancy Dodge. Dvaretskas holds a master's degree in the history, theory, and criticism of art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
