Modernity as it could have been

“Eastern Europe doesn’t exist any longer” : the opening statement of the curators’ text for the exhibition catalogue Les Promesses du passé : une histoire discontinue de l’art dans l’ex-Europe de l’Est lucidly formulates the current state of affairs of the subject matter in question. Indeed, after twenty years and dozens of exhibitions addressing, reflecting on, deconstructing, critically investigating and conceptually reformulating the “former East” of Europe, its communist past and post-com..