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Art during the Cold War
Representations of the Holocaust in the Cold War Eastern Bloc: the Early Decades – conference, Berlin, Freie Universität, June 5–6, 2023
Art during the Cold War
Art of the Holocaust until 1989: Beyond an East/West Divide – conference, Budapest, CEU/KEMKI, June 8–10, 2022
Enigma 103: (An)archives
… periodical The Enigma 103, (An)archives is releasing eight engaging papers from the Artpool40 Conference in Hungarian translation. The essays discuss motivations behind building and running artist archives, the alternative histories they generate, and the challenges of their sustainability, institutionalization, transformations, and critical interpretations. Editor: Csilla Markója Guest editors: Emese Kürti and Zsuzsa László Authors: Kristine Stiles, Sven Spieker, Lina …
Resonances
… to 2024, this collaborative research project will first take the form of a traveling four-chapter conference in Bratislava, Budapest, Prague, and Poznan, followed by a prospective traveling exhibition and catalog. This project applies theories of cultural transfer (cross-border contacts triggering mutual changes in cultural concepts and practices), histoire croisée (interlinked history), and cultural translation to the field of CEE art. Developed in the context of postcolonial studies, …
Years of transition: the 1980s in Hungary and Eastern Europe
… international context. The basic research which has been undergoing since 2022 has included a conference entitled The Flowers of Transition – The Art of Hungary in the 1980s , interviews with key figures of the decade, and a detailed study of the literature on art criticism from the 1980s. The objective of this latter endeavour is to compile an anthology summarising the literature of art criticism from this period, with an aim to publish in 2024. Past events: Crisis or …