The Flowers of Transition – The Art of Hungary in the 1980s

The Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) is organising a conference on the art of Hungary in the 1980s. The goal of the event is to initiate collective professional discourse on the art of the 1980s and to identify the most important but under-researched areas and topics related to the period’s Hungarian art as well as those that require scholarly revision in the light of the latest perspectives and knowledge. Péter György’s plenary lecture will be followed by 15 scholarly presentations. The presentations will cover a wide range of issues that shaped Hungarian art in the 1980s from the period’s avant-garde art to the system of state cultural institutions, including queer, political and postmodern movements.