Post-socialist art or post-communist art is a term used in analysis of art arriving from post-socialist (post-communist) countries taken as different in their nature from Western, Postmodern art.
Crucial elements of Post-socialist art include: Socialist art began opening to Western markets in the eighties, introducing Slovenian collective IRWIN, Belgrade Malevich (aka Goran Djordjevic) and artists that Peter Weibel would name "Retro-avant-garde."
In the nineties, a second wave was followed by mass-funded political versions.
Much of this art was financed by George Soros.
This led critics such as Miško Šuvaković to draw comparisons to Socialist realism, coining the term "Soros Realism" to refer to the movement.