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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, …
Art during the Cold War
… take an interdisciplinary approach, at the intersection of art history, exhibition history, and cultural diplomacy (soft power), in order to illuminate the artistic nodes of bilateral and regional international relations and to examine the memory of the Holocaust in fine arts in the context of Cold War confrontation and East–West rivalry. The two ongoing research projects are The Modern Idol: Henry Moore in the Eastern Bloc and Holocaust and the Arts. The former examines, in the …
"Active - archive - research" workshop
… different professional backgrounds) will start their work under the leadership of Andrea Pócsik, cultural researcher. The idea of the "laboratory" is based on the unique feature of Artpool that participants can develop their own research questions in discussion with the founders, artist György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay, and find the right paths to understand the archive and explore the collection. They will also learn about the complementary but different methods of art history and …
Ildikó Eleöd
… Secretariat She is a graduate of the Programs in Art History and French Language, Literature and Culture at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Between 2010 and 2016, she worked as an exhibition organizer and collection manager at MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art in Debrecen. In addition to working on processing the Antal Lusztig Collection, she was also, for instance, curator of the exhibition entitled The Plain: Stories from the Past Two Hundred Years of Hungarian Fine Arts …