‘art archives’
TÓTalJOY Prize
Research based art prize Project leader: Brigitta Ádi Visual artist Endre Tót, founder and supporter of the TÓTalJOY Prize, had long been planning to create a form of support for contemporary Hungarian artists. The prize derives its name from Endre Tót’s conceptual program centred on the notion of joy, which was launched in the 1970s. His early joy pieces and the actions of the TÓTalJOY series are …
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 external researchers after organisation and …
Resonances
Regional and Transregional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 1970s Project leader: Emese Kürti, Zsuzsa László The Resonances research project examines the historical relationships, interactions, collaborations, cultural-political-social differences and similarities between the art scenes of the Central and Eastern European region from the second half of the 1960s to the fall of communism. Between 2021 and 2023, the first phase of the …
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 …
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, the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and …