Gucsa, Magdolna

Magdolna Gucsa obtained her PhD in Interdisciplinary History/Art History at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) (Paris) and Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) (Budapest) in 2023. Her research focuses on the avant-garde movements of the first half of the twentieth century. She is primarily interested in the politics of artistic practices (creation, collection, criticism, and institutionalisation) considered avant- garde in its broad sense. In her PhD thesis, she examined how French and foreign art critics’ political arguments in favour of immigrant artists, gathered under the name École de Paris, are crystallized in and transformed into aesthetic categories via the principal example of Emil Szittya. She is a research fellow at the Central European Research Institute for Art History, working in avant-garde research.