‘Eastern Europe’
Years of Transition: the 1980s in Hungary and Eastern Europe
… team’s participation in the Getty Foundation-funded project Understanding 1989 in East-Central European Art further strengthened the international dimension of the study. Ongoing since 2022, the research has included a conference titled The Flowers of Decay– The Art of Hungary in the 1980s , interviews with key figures from the decade, and an extensive review of 1980s art criticism. This work culminated in an anthology analysing the debates that shaped the Hungarian art scene …
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, …
Exhibitions and Criticism. Artistic discourses in the 1980s
… [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 criticism of the decade, the volume delves into the art discourses of the era. The volume examines key artistic debates on postmodernism, new painting, …
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 history after …
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, …