‘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 …
TÓTalJOY Prize
… joy pieces and the actions of the TÓTalJOY series are considered among the most important works of Eastern European conceptual art. The TÓTalJOY Prize, with a monetary value totalling EUR 10,000, aims to provide financial and institutional support to contemporary artists whose practice is research-oriented. Entries to the annually announced open call are expected from contemporary artists who are prepared to present project proposals based in art research, with a view to implementation. In …
Resonances
… cultural-political-social differences and similarities between the art scenes of the Central and Eastern European region from the second half of the 1960s to the fall of communism. Between 2021 and 2023, the first phase of the project, Resonances: Regional and Transregional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 1970s was realized in collaboration with Andrea Euringer Bátorova (Comenius University, Bratislava, Department of Art History), Pavlína Morganova, Dagmar Svatosova, Lujza Kotočová …
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 most …
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, …