The Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) was established in 2021 as an affiliate of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Our mission is to strengthen Hungary's academic discourse and represent Hungarian art and art history at a high standard globally by initiating and implementing locally focused, regional and international research projects and collaborations connected to art-historical issues.
TÓTalJOY Prize
Open call
Exhibitions and Criticism. Artistic discourses in the 1980s
book launch in Pécs
The first part of ArtMargins’ Resonances Special Issue is Out!
A thematic selection of papers from our regional collaborative research project, Resonances, which concluded in 2023, has been published in the online edition of ArtMargins.
JEPS Special Issue on the Center-Periphery Dynamics of The Press
A special issue has been published on the 2022 conference of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit), which took place in Budapest.
New Acquisition of the Photographic Collection of the SZM-KEMKI ADK
Donation of Photographer György TÓTH
Seeing the Whole Picture: Studies on the Work of György Konecsni
We are pleased to announce the release of a new publication of KEMKI. This richly illustrated volume of essays—published in connection to KEMKI ADK’s research on cold war modernisms, and edited by Katalin Bakos and Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári—explores the oeuvre of György Konecsni from new perspectives. At the book launch event, Tünde Topor will moderate a conversation between Katalin Bakos, Sára Bárdi, Anikó Katona and Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári.