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Exhibitions and Criticism. Artistic discourses in the 1980s
… art market, situating them within the broader historical context of the decade's transformative cultural, political and social landscape. The book is available for purchase at the bookstore and webshop of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Hungarian National Gallery. Related content: Years of Transition: the 1980s in Hungary and Eastern Europe. Project of the Research Department.
Artpool40 – Active Archives and Art Networks
… Research Institute of Art History of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. It aims to map the cultural-political-historical contexts of Artpool's activity by bringing together scholars and practitioners interested in transnational research on artist archives, progressive curatorial and museological practices, and the historiography of Cold War art scenes and networks. The conference takes Artpool’s 1979 concept of an “ Active Archive ” as a starting point to explore its contemporary …
Networking the Peripheries / World Art Post: International Artist Stamp Exhibition
… design, “which were assembled into meaningful series, regardless of geographical, political, and cultural boundaries,” write Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay in the introduction to the catalog. Artpool organized an exhibition of the stamp designs received from 550 artists from 35 countries at the Fészek Club in April 1982, which made visible the transcontinental, contingent, and with blind-spots, but nevertheless utopian, network of gift culture that the project had set in motion. Many …
Presence in Kapolcs
… Latest exhibition: Telematic Society: Art in the Fourth Dimension, 19-28/07/2024 Culture Hill in the Cultur e Valley, 21-30/07/2023 FUTURE BEGINNINGS / COINCIDENCES | 50 - 40 - 30 - 20 - 10 YEARS AGO | NOW, 22-31/07/2022 Fifty Years of Holarchy, 23/07-01/08/2021 The Integration of Doubts/Doubles and Chance / The Mistery of the Mobius Strip, 17/07-04/10/2020
Contemporary Art in KEMKI
… (which also bring into play traditions from the history of institutions, collections and cultural education, and which can be found in the Contemporary Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery), as well as other precursors of the neo-avantgarde (including the enamel works of Imre Bak, Sándor Pinczehelyi or Ferenc Lantos, also found in the Museum’s collection), the displayed works may inspire the creation of further pieces and exhibitions. Much appreciation is owed to Eszter …