‘cult’
Brigitta Ádi
Research Assistant She graduated in 2020 with a Bachelor's degree in Design Culture from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, then earned her Master's degree in Design Theory with a curatorial specialization. Her main areas of interest include research-based art and the intersections of public space, art, and design. She is currently a lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and teacher in the Design Culture PreMOME program. As part of the …
Sára Bárdi
… during World War II. The focus of her research is the history of interwar Hungarian art and visual culture with special emphasis on the relationship between art and politics, as well as the genres of exhibitions and posters. Between 2020 and 2024 she worked as a museologist in the Hungarian National Gallery – Collection of Print and Drawings. List of publications Publications
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Mihály Munkácsy), 2022
… somewhere between the form/function of a plaque and a certificate—simultaneously evokes the cult that surrounds the artist and the archives that preserve its memorabilia.
GRÓF Ferenc – GYENES Zsófia: (Dis)organigram – Association of Hungarian Fine and Industrial Artists, 2022
… was appointed by Communist Party leadership, usually from artists who sought to conform to the cultural policy of the time. The new Association’s tasks included organising the first nationwide “socialist realist” art exhibitions, “decentralising” the art scene, organising exhibitions and art events in the countryside, establishing a system of free art schools, and representing the artists who were registered as members in a quasi-union format. Following the 1956 Revolution, the …
GRÓF Ferenc: Academy, Bourse, Museum, 2019–2023
… strength and power—the symbol and “temple” of? What is the underlying software—the financial, cultural or power dynamics—that has the capacity to once again organise the randomly scattered and patterned geometric elements of the blown-up pictograms, into these unified (functioning) structures of identical form, complete with columns resting on the steps and the crowning element of the tympanum?