‘80s research’
Exhibitions and Criticism. Artistic discourses in the 1980s
… Few periods in the Hungarian art field have seen such intense, exciting and open debates as the 1980s. The anthology Kiállítások és kritikák [Exhibitions and Criticism], edited by Júliusz Huth and Kristóf Nagy and published by the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), offers a comprehensive exploration of this era. Featuring over fifty essays, reflections and reviews originally published during the 1980s, alongside a new, comprehensive study on the art …
Years of transition: the 1980s in Hungary and Eastern Europe
Project leader: Júliusz Huth, Kristóf Nagy The Research Department’s project about the 1980s aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of Hungary’s visual arts during the decade, considering cultural and economic policies as well as global contexts and connections. The research project examines key aspects of the period, including the transformation of the art institutional system, major artistic debates, critical discourses, and the …
Júliusz Huth
… Budapest, Hungary. He completed his PhD at the Doctoral School of Philosophy at ELTE in 2024. His research focuses on the history of institutions, exhibitions and visual art-related discourses in the second half of the 20 th century, particularly in Hungary during the 1980s and 1990s. In 2017, he was awarded the Fülep Lajos Prize, and in 2020, he received the Horváth Art Foundation’s Criticism Award. He is a lecturer at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and a board member of the …
Kristóf Nagy
… 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 …