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László Százados
Chief Museologist (Archive of the Lectorate) He graduated from the Department of Art History and History at ELTE BTK. He has been working at the Hungarian National Gallery since 1988, until 2020 as Chief Museologist of the Contemporary Collection, and since 2021 as Chief Museologist of the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Center (ADK). He has been editor of the Balkon journal of contemporary art since 1997. He is a …
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 University, …
From the Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts: Minutes of Exhibition Authorisation Meetings
The archival material of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts—which comprises part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts–Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK)—contains the minutes of meetings that were held from the 1960s to the 1980s for the purpose of evaluating exhibition proposals awaiting official authorisation. From 1963 onwards, the Lectorate had a primarily …
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. …