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Anna Szirmai
… for Art History. In 2020, she received her PhD from the Doctoral School of Literary Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University. In her dissertation, she discussed experimental trends in Italian poetry in the 1960s and 1970s. In the first half of 2024, she was a research fellow at the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) in New York. Her current research explores forms of reproductive labour, focusing on the work of women artists active in Central Europe in the 1970s. …
Dániel Véri
… 1945 to 1989, especially the artistic reception of Jewish identity and the Holocaust, as well as cultural diplomacy and the cultural history of blood libels. He is the curator and co-curator of numerous research-based exhibitions. List of publications Publications
Eszter Őze
… museology. In recent years, she has primarily focused on the interwar period, researching workers’ culture, as well as social museums and public health museums from this time. Since 2020 she has been teaching in the Department of Art Theory and Curatorial Studies at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest. Previously, she was a lecturer of the Department of Media and Communication at Eötvös Loránd University. Until 2021, she was a lead member of the Studio of Young Artists’ …
Years of Transition: the 1980s in Hungary and Eastern Europe
… aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of Hungary’s visual arts during the decade, considering cultural and economic policies as well as global contexts and connections. The research project examines key aspects of the period, including the transformation of the art institutional system, major artistic debates, critical discourses, and the emergence of new painting trends and postmodern theories. It also explores the blending of experimental and underground movements with various art …
Organising the Spectacle: Research on the Avantgarde
… 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 social history and art theory, such as urbanism, sociology of art, intellectual history, and cultural transfer. The central concept of the research program is the metropolis, …