Kristóf Nagy
Art Historian, Sociologist
He studied art history at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London and sociology and anthropology at Central European University (CEU). He submitted his doctoral dissertation at CEU in 2024, where he was awarded the Advanced PhD Award in the same year. He is working on a project at the Research Department of KEMKI focusing on the art of the 1980s. As part of this, he organized the Flowers of Decay conference in 2022 and edited the volume Exhibitions and Criticism: Discourses on Visual Art in the 1980s in 2024. His writings have been published in Hungarian, English, German, and Spanish.
In 2019, he curated the exhibition Left Turn, Right Turn – Artistic and Political Radicalism in the Kádár Era // The Orfeo and Inconnu Groups at the Blinken OSA Archive. In 2024, he organized the international workshop Infrastructures of Trading and Transferring Art since 1900.
Between 2020 and 2022, he was awarded the Ernő Kállai Grant for Art Historians and Art Critics. In recent years, he has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of Vienna, Amsterdam, and Regensburg, as well as at the Slovenian and Czech Academies of Sciences. He is also a member of the Helyzet Workshop and teaches at ELTE. In the 2025–2026 academic year, he will be a Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University.