‘Eastern Europe’
Years of transition: the 1980s in Hungary and Eastern Europe
… team are participants in the Getty Foundation-funded project Understanding 1989 in East-Central European Art further contributes to the creation of an international context. The basic research which has been undergoing since 2022 has included a conference entitled The Flowers of Transition – The Art of Hungary in the 1980s , interviews with key figures of the decade, and a detailed study of the literature on art criticism from the 1980s. The objective of this latter endeavour is …
What Will Be Already Exists: Temporalities of Cold War Archives in East-Central Europe and Beyond
… of the 40th anniversary of the foundation of Artpool and its concurrent relocation to the Central European Research Institute of Art History of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. The study volume related to the conference, edited by Emese Kürti and Zsuzsa László, is published by Transcript, one of Europe's leading independent scientific publishers. How do artist archives survive and stay authentic in radically changed contexts? The volume addresses the challenge of continuity, …
Dávid Fehér
Director Dávid Fehér is Director of the Central European Research Institute for Art History of the Museum of Fine Arts, curator of 20 th century and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, and assistant professor at the Institute of Art History, Eötvös Loránd University. He defended his PhD dissertation on the art of László Lakner at Eötvös Loránd University in 2018. His field of research is Central and Eastern European art …
Zsuzsa László
… Department. She is writing her dissertation on the development and critique of the notion of Eastern European art at the Doctoral School of Art Throry at ELTE-BTK. She is a member of the editorial team of ArtMargins Online, the board of tranzit.hu, the NEP4Dissent research network and the Hungarian Section of AICA. Her fields of research include transnational and decentralized approaches to Central and Eastern European art history and exhibition history, neo-avant-garde, conceptualism, …
Péter Korniss Archive
… figures in Hungarian photography, donated 63,000 items from his archives to the Central European Research Institute for Art History. The oeuvre of Korniss, who was the first photographer ever to be awarded the Kossuth Prize, focuses mainly on documenting the disappearing traditional peasant life and culture of Eastern Europe (mainly Transylvania). As part of the archive, the KEMKI has also received the complete collection of film negatives from The Guest Worker, one of the …