‘archives’
Judit Radák
… Currently she is a docent of the Hungarian Dance University. She has been on staff at the photo archives of the KEMKI ADK since early 2023. Her main areas of expertise are Lajos Vajda and the Artists’ Colony of Rottenbiller Street, as well as Ilona Keserü’s body of work. Since 2008, she has been a committee member of the National Secondary School Academic Competition of Art History. She regularly publishes in professional journals and periodicals, and also speaks at conferences. …
Dóra Halasi
… an archivist and art historian at the Artpool Art Research Center, specialising in audio and video archives, the poster collection, and the associated research service. Since 2007 she has been Artpool’s chief photo and video documenter, and has been responsible for archiving media (video and audio digitalization). Participation in projects: Krisz-Krasz exhibition and conference (PPKE-BTK, 2004). Crosstalk Video Art Festival (2008, 2011 ) – presentations about the video archive of …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Dezső Korniss), 2022
… Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts, but have, since 2014, been kept at ADK’s predecessor, the Data Archives of the Hungarian National Gallery. The mosaic of the Esperanto Fountain is, on the one hand, an early and qualitative example of making the most (often thanks to professional solidarity) of the limited possibilities afforded by the institutional system of the era within a framework of multi-round commissions. At the same time, as a result of the era’s continuous “transformation” and …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Mihály Munkácsy), 2022
… of a plaque and a certificate—simultaneously evokes the cult that surrounds the artist and the archives that preserve its memorabilia.
Documents of János Tornyai (1869-1936)
… and the Hungarian National Gallery, while the documents were transferred to the latter’s Archives and Documentation Collection. The collection of documents left behind by János Tornyai offers a complex picture of his work as both a painter and a public figure in artistic circles: it includes nearly ninety-five handwritten journals, along with nearly eighty letters written by him (mainly to his second wife) and 540 letters addressed to him. The correspondence clearly reveals …