‘Cold War’
What Will Be Already Exists: Temporalities of Cold War Archives in East-Central Europe and Beyond
… of self-historicization. The contributions give knowledgeable insights into the transition of Cold War art networks and institutional landscapes. Edited by Emese Kürti and Zsuzsa László Texts by Zdenka Badovinac, Judit Bodor-Roddy Hunter, David Crowley, Lina Džuverović, Daniel Grúň, Emese Kürti, Karolina Majewska-Güde, Kristine Stiles, Sven Spieker and Tomasz Załuski. The open-access electronic version of the book can be accessed here. On the cover: György Galántai and …
The Oeuvre of György Konecsni
Cold War Modernisms György Konecsni is known primarily for his applied graphic work. He also worked in many other fields and areas, however, creating autonomous paintings, stamp designs and illustrations, and also receiving commissions for fairground and monumental art projects. Based on the artist’s estate, which has been preserved and looked after by his heirs, beyond this well known image …
Seeing the Whole Picture: Studies on the Work of György Konecsni
… Museum of Fine Arts and the Hungarian National Gallery. Related contents: Cold War Modernisms research project Book Launch, 27. 02. 2025.
Dávid Fehér
… and Beyond (Thames & Hudson, London, 2018), Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary (Getty Publications, Los Angeles, 2018), Abstract Hungary (Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2019) and Dóra Maurer (Tate Publishing, London, 2019). His major curatorial projects include Imre Bak’s exhibition Timely Timelessnes: Layers of an Oeuvre / 1967–2015 (Paks Gallery, 2016), Bacon, Freud and the Painting of the School of London, a joint exhibition with Tate in Budapest …
Cold War Modernisms
Following the research on the work of György Konecsni, which concluded in 2024, the research on Cold War Modernisms is moving along new research directions, based primarily on the records of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts in KEMKI ADK. The deeper processing of the Design Center, namely the Industrial Design Information Center, added to the collection in 2023, has begun, while sub themes such as the relation between abstraction and public space, textile art and public space are …