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Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári
Museologist (Archive of the Lectorate) She earned an MA in Design Theory from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) in 2015. In the same year, she was awarded the Ernő Kállai Art Critic Scholarship, in the framework of which she focused on the exhibition activities and international relations of the Council of Applied Arts (1955-1975). She began to work in the Data Archives of the Museum of …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 transferred to the KEMKI ADK collection in 2023 thanks to the family's honourable decision, and thus became the main pillar of the Beke's life work processing carried out by the Research Department of KEMKI under the umbrella of the Resonances project. Once arranged and processed, the archive …