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.
New Acquisition of the SZM-KEMKI ADK
Donation by Dóra Maurer and the SUMUS Foundation
Petrovics 150 : Study Volume in Honor of Elek Petrovics
The latest volume of KEMKI publications has been released, featuring studies on the life and professional career of Elek Petrovics (1873–1945), the legendary director of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Crisis or bloom? Debates on Art in the 1980s no. 2
The 1980s as Gesamtkunstwerk
Participants:Vera Baksa-Soós, János Sugár, János Vető
Art Preserved in a Mirror Image
Conference on the Legacy of István Ferenczy
PRINT NETWORKS: Edgardo Antonio Vigo and Artists’ Periodicals
Artpool's new collection display
KEMKI's Participation in the Látkép Conference
The Látkép Art History Festival, organized by the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, will take place between September 25 and 27, 2025. KEMKI will be represented at the academic conference by the Archive and Documentation Centre and the Research Department.
Fanzine Anatomy finissage
concert and video interview marathon
Call for Papers
Infrastructures of Selling Modern and Contemporary Art in Socialism and Postsocialism
The Future Continues
Artpool Art Research Center's traditional summer exhibition event at the Valley of Arts Festival in Kapolcs
Zine-making workshop with Zabella
As part of the Fanzine Anatomy collection dislplay, Artpool is organizing a free of charge zine-making workshop with the creators of Zabella Zine.
Eszter Őze: Museum of Working Bodies-Social Museum (1901-1945): Body and Work, Care and Discipline
We are excited to announce the publication by the Napvilág Kiadó of the volume by Eszter Őze, staff member of the Research Department at KEMKI and project leader of "Organising the Spectacle: Research on the Avant-garde".
Curatorial Guided Tour on the Fanzine Anatomy
The next event of „Fanzine Anatomy – Alternative Hungarian Publications on Music and Politics from the Artpool Collection” will take place on July 2nd at 5 pm.
Curatorial Guided Tour on the Fanzine Anatomy
Alternative Hungarian Publications on Music and Politics from the Artpool Collection
Who Will Be the Keeper? – Keeping Track of Art
What is the current state of independent art archives, databases and registers in Hungary and internationally? To what extent are they visible? Who uses them and for what purpose? Can art archives even be separated from other historical source bases in the first place, and if so, why should they be considered separately?
What Can the Perspective of Borderlands Internationalism Offer Art Historians?
A lecture by Joseph Grim Feinberg (Czech Academy of Sciences; Senior Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, CEU) within the framework of KEMKI’s research project on the art of the 1980s.
Exhibitions and Criticism. Artistic Discourses in the 1980s
Book Launch in Pécs