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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 Design Center Archives
Heritage: Object and Environmental Culture in Hungary 1945 -– 1985. Edited by Mihály Pohárnok. Graphic designer: László Zsótér. Budapest, Ernst Museum, 29 October - to 24 November 1985. 11. 28.
TÓTalJOY Prize
… In the judging process, preference is given to submissions that respond to changing cultural contexts and contemporary dilemmas. In response to the first call, announced in July 2021, twenty-seven project proposals were submitted. The decision-making body, composed of Hungarian and international judges, selected Tamás Kaszás’s project entitled Lost Wisdom as the year’s prize-winning entry. In the judges’ view, Tamás Kaszás’s Lost Wisdom, through its background of lived …
Péter Korniss Archive
… the Kossuth Prize, focuses mainly on documenting the disappearing traditional peasant life and culture of Eastern Europe (mainly Transylvania). As part of the archive, the KEMKI has also received the complete collection of film negatives from The Guest Worker, one of the most influential series of Hungarian documentary photography. The series, which depicts the life of commuting workers, took over 10 years to complete. Published in 1988 in a book format, Korniss’s “photographic novel” is …
Balázs Zoltán Tóth
… from the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature at SZTE BTK and from the Department of Cultural Organising and Media at SZTE-JGYTFK. From 2008 to 2010 he was a student at The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava. In 2013, he was a fellow at NEDCC, Andover, USA. In 2019, he received his PhD in Aesthetics from the ELTE BTK Doctoral School of Philosophy. As a writer, editor and curator, he is an active participant in the …