‘avant-garde’
Organising the Spectacle: Regional Contexts of the Historical Avant-garde
Project leader: Sára Bárdi – Magdolna Gucsa – Eszter Őze Our research on the avant-garde examines the media, institutional changes and series of events that characterised the period in the context late 19 th – early 20 th century social movements and mass culture. It goes beyond the aesthetic interpretations of art and approaches it through its social embeddedness and international framework, in line with methods and inquiries from the interdisciplinary crossovers of …
György Tóth: Portraits (1985–1991)
György Tóth: Tamás Király neo-avant-garde fashion designer, 1988
Zsuzsa László
… decentralized approaches to Central and Eastern European art history and exhibition history, neo-avant-garde, conceptualism, cultural diplomacy, progressive pedagogy and art theory. She works at KEMKI since 2021, between 2019 and 2022 she was museologist at Artpool, between 2009 and 2019 she was curator at tranzit/hu, between 2006 and 2008 she worked at the Studio of Young Artists, and she was a guest lecturer at the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts …
Petra Csizek
… As assistant curator, she participated in the realisation of research-based exhibitions ( Parallel Avant-garde – The Pécs Workshop 1968-80 ; Bosch+Bosch Group and the Vojvodina Neo-avantgarde Movement ). Her curatorial interests have also focused on the relationship between contemporary art and public spaces, as well as explorations of possibilities for cooperation and the examination of current social problems ( Winterreise, Budapest Gallery, 2022; Slow Life – Radical Practices of the …
Resonances
… in the region with the intention of constructing a new narrative of the East-Central European neo-avant-garde based on transnational dialogues. In the framework of this collaboration, a travelling conference was implemented in four steps in Bratislava, Budapest, Prague, and Poznań. As a result, we compiled two journal issues based on the papers of the conference series. For more details visit: resonances.artpool.hu Past events: Art Margins, Regional Resonances: In …