Dr. Reuben Fowkes
Dr. Reuben Fowkes
SAVA Research Fellow in Environmental Art History
Dr. Reuben Fowkes is Research Fellow in the Environmental Art History of Socialism at the Department of Art History and World Art Studies at University of East Anglia. His research centres on artistic engagements with ecological issues in contemporary art and under socialism. He is co-author of the Thames & Hudson World of Art series publications on Art and Climate Change (2022) and Central and Eastern European Art Since 1945 (2020), and in addition to publishing widely, curates research exhibitions of contemporary art. He is on the editorial board of the journal Third Text and co-hosts the SAVA podcast Left to be Desired. His current work on the Socialist Anthropocene entails investigating the environmental art history of the wider socialist world in the twentieth century, from Castro’s Cuba to Soviet Central Asia.
Email address: r.fowkes@uea.ac.uk
Selected publications
• Art and Climate Change, Thames & Hudson World of Art series, 2022
• Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950, Thames & Hudson World of Art series, 2020
• Ilona Németh: Eastern Sugar, Sternberg Press, 2020
• ‘Actually Existing Artworlds of Socialism,’ guest edited special issue, Third Text, no.153, July 2018.
Selected exhibitions
• ‘Colliding Epistemes,’ Bozar Brussels, Belgium, May-June 2022
• ‘Potential Agrarianisms,’ Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia, August-October 2021
• ‘Walking without Footprints,’ tranzit.sk, Bratislava, December 2015-February 2016
• ‘Like a Bird: Avian Encounters in the Age of Ecology,’ Trafó Budapest / tranzit.ro Bucharest, 2014
• ‘Loophole to Happiness,’ Muzeum Sztuki Lodz / Trafó Budapest / Futura Prague 2011
Grants / projects
• Getty Foundation Connecting Art Histories grant for ‘Confrontations: Sessions in East European Art History,’ at Institute of Advanced Studies UCL, 2018-22
• Erste Foundation grant for ‘The Anthropocene Reading Room,’ at the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art, 2014-16
• Creative Europe grant for ‘The Danube River School,’ at Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art in partnership with the Green Art Lab Alliance, 2013-15