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.
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, and 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 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
TÓTalJOY Prize
Open call
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.
Exhibitions and Criticism
Book launch