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Judit Radák
Chief Museologist (Photo Archive) Judit Radák graduated from the Art History Program of Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE) in 2003, and from the Portuguese Language and Literature Program of the same university in 2018. She defended her doctoral dissertation on Lajos Vajda’s Pepita Notebooks in 2013. During her 20 years as an educator, she taught at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, the Metropolitan University, …
What Will Be Already Exists: Temporalities of Cold War Archives in East-Central Europe and Beyond
… In February 2020, we organized an international conference entitled Artpool40 - Active Archives and Art Networks on the occasion 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. …
Stratification of an Archive: Possible Approaches to the Oeuvre of Péter Korniss
… and edited texts from the presentations given at the conference entitled Stratification of an Archive: Possible Approaches to the Oeuvre of Péter Korniss. The diversely themed essays in the volume provide new interpretations of attitudes that prevailed in Hungarian documentary photography and photojournalism in the post-WWII period. Illustrated with images from the Péter Korniss Archive (held in the collection of the KEMKI ADK) as well as some previously unpublished …
Enigma 103: (An)archives
Collaboration with the Hungarian art periodical The Enigma 103, (An)archives is releasing eight engaging papers from the Artpool40 Conference in Hungarian translation. The essays discuss motivations behind building and running artist archives, the alternative histories they generate, and the challenges of their sustainability, institutionalization, transformations, and critical interpretations. Editor: Csilla Markója Guest editors: Emese Kürti and Zsuzsa …
László Beke archive and research
Project leader: Emese Kürti, Zsuzsa László The archive of the internationally renowned art historian László Beke, who passed away in 2022, was entrusted to the collection of the KEMKI ADK in 2023 thanks to the family's decision, which is an honour for us. The archive is now the central source of the KEMKI Research Department’s work in processing Beke’s oeuvre, under the aegis of the Resonances project. The archive will be opened to …