Therefore I thought it would be important to document the life of this milieu. Already at the beginning of the 1980s, when I was studying in Moscow for the first time, I felt that the artistic underground was threatened by censorship and repression. I could have been expelled from USSR and denied re-entry. Sabine Hänsgen: Certainly, from the Soviet point of view this was a forbidden recording. This was probably very exciting for you, but didn’t you take a great personal risk? Olga Martin: In 1984, when nobody could imagine the end of the Soviet Union, you clandestinely made the video documentation Moscow Moscow about Russian underground art and literature, and smuggled it to the West. She has translated into German poetry by prominent contemporary Russian poets such as Vsevolod Nekrasov, Dmitry Prigov, Lev Rubinstein, and others. Hänsgen is also active as a translator and editor. The Text Works of Dmitry Aleksandrovich is currently being shown in various places across Europe. She has also been instrumental in establishing an audiovisual archive of Moscow Conceptualism that has been displayed in various exhibitions. Art under Conditions of Political Repression, 60s-80s (Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 2009). Counterculture in Central and Eastern Europe (Academy of Arts in Berlin, 2000) and Subversive Practices. Kunst unter Bedingungen politischer Repression 60er-80er / Südamerika / Europa (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz 2010), pp. Christ, Iris Dressler (Hg.): Subversive Praktiken. ![]() Alternative Kultur in Zentral- und Osteuropa: Die 60er bis 80er Jahre (Bremen: Edition Temmen, 2000) Hans D. Mit Multimedia CD (Bremen: Edition Temmen,1998) Forschungsstelle Osteuropa (ed.), Samizdat. Moscow Samizdat Books, which was devoted to underground publications in the former Soviet Union.( Sascha Wonders, Günter Hirt, Präprintium. In 1998, together with Georg Witte, she curated the exhibition Präprintium. ![]() Since the 1980s she has been a member of the Moscow art group Collective Actions. Currently based in Zurich, Sabine Hänsgen is a researcher, curator, historian, and theoretician of Russian art.
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