April 21, 2013 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Symposium “Floating Worlds and Future Cities" presents the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States of the work of the great Russian-Jewish artist, architect, designer and theoretician, Lazar Khidekel. Khidekel worked closely with both Marc Chagall and Kazimir Malevich in Vitebsk in the years 1918-1922, where he became an important proponent and theoretician of the avant-garde movement known as Suprematism and a founding member of Unovis group (Affirmers of New Art), which included other notable Russian and Jewish artists such as Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitsky, Nina Kogan and Ilya Chashnik. This exhibition and accompanying symposium explore Khidekel’s biography and work, the Jewish contribution to the Russian avant-garde, and the glory of Vitebsk, the Paris of the East, as it was known during this period. Speakers: Dr. Jonathan Brent, Executive Director, YIVO Institute Opening remarks Dr. Maria Kokkori, Research Fellow, The Art Institute of Chicago Vitebsk Art School: Lazar Khidekel and Kazimir Malevich's teaching philosophy Ginés Garrido, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University The Dream of Flight. On the gravity-defying nature of a new Landscape Infrastructure. Dr. Regina Khidekel, President, Lazar Khidekel Society Malevich, Khidekel and Vitebsk: Jewish Connections Professor Benjamin Harshav, Yale University Chagall, Lissitsky, and Khidekel Professor Constantin Boym, Designer From the Spoon to the City Dr. Mark Khidekel, Architect The development of Russian Avant-garde Ecological themes to solve Architectural challenges of the 21st century postindustrial civilization. https://yivo.org/membership

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