‘art archives’
Dóra Halasi
Archivist, Art Historian She received her MA in Hungarian and Art History from the Faculty of Humanities at Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Piliscsaba. Her thesis examined the connection between dance and visual art in the 70s, which has been marginalized in the history of art. Since 2005 she has been an archivist and art historian at the Artpool Art Research Center, specialising in audio and video …
Emese Kürti
Deputy Director for Research, Head of Department, Art Historian From 2018 to 2021, she was a researcher at the Artpool Art Research Center, then Head of Department from 2021 to 2022. She is currently Head of the Department of Research and Deputy Director of Research at the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI). Previously, she was a lecturer at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and Central European University …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Dezső Korniss), 2022
… on hollow structural section overall dimensions: 47 x 73.5 cm The motifs highlighted by the artist are from the mosaic (1967) covering the bottom of the Esperanto Fountain located in front of the Rác Thermal Baths, in the Tabán area of the First District. The black and white photographs showing Dezső Korniss’s (1908–1984) work (KEMKI ADK Inv. No.: 25001/2014/Korniss Dezső/1-3) belong to the public sculpture register, which comprises part of the 500 metres of documents that originally …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Mihály Munkácsy), 2022
… dimensions: 94 x 50 cm The estate of Mihály MUNKÁCSY (1844–1900) constitutes the oldest part—and perhaps one of the most valuable portions—of the KEMKI ADK collection. In addition to the documents, it also contains his relics: his furniture, the plaster cast of his right hand, his palette, his mourning ribbon, and the silver laurel wreath given to Mihály Munkácsy in 1882 by his fellow artists along with the National Hungarian Society of Fine Arts (KEMKI ADK Inv. No. 4003/1941)—which, …
Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári
… (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 Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery in 2015. As a museologist at the KEMKI Archive and …