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Eszter Molnár
… contemporary art. She holds an MA degree in Art History and Hungarian Language, Literature and Culture from Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE). As a student of the “Literary Modernity” Program of ELTE’s Doctoral School of Literary Studies, she studied the image theory (magical pictoriality) of Hungarian literature and fine arts from the interwar period. She has been working as a freelance curator since 2008, opening several art exhibitions and publishing regularly. From 2014 to 2022, she …
György Szücs
Chief Museologist (Archive) He graduated from the History-Art History Program of the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE BTK) in 1984. From 1989, he worked as a museologist at the Painting Department of the Hungarian National Gallery, of which, in 1999, he became the secretary for research, and from 2010 to 2023, he served as deputy director for research. He is a researcher of 20 th -century fine art, with a special focus on the following topics/areas: the art …
Collection of Artist Relics
… acquisition from the nineteenth century onwards. Prominent artists were surrounded by a veritable cult; elegant receptions and ceremonies were organised for them, and their funerals were held with great pomp, attracting huge crowds. Later, anniversary commemorations were regularly held to honour their memory. Thus it was only natural that, alongside artists’ works and documents, museums should also add artists’ belongings to their collections. Examples of venerated nineteenth century artists …
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 …
The Digital "Attic Archive"
… four separate ten-year-long self-historicization projects, reflecting on the changing social and cultural conditions of the 1970s–2020s, within which the artist operated. As the archive is now dispersed across Scotland, Hungary, and Ireland, the project seeks to bring together archivists and curators from key collections to test the possibility of establishing a shared online, open-source platform. Functioning as an archival/curatorial space in which the historical threads of the …