‘documents’
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Dezső Korniss), 2022
… Dezső/1-3) belong to the public sculpture register, which comprises part of the 500 metres of documents that originally belonged to the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts, but have, since 2014, been kept at ADK’s predecessor, the Data Archives of the Hungarian National Gallery. The mosaic of the Esperanto Fountain is, on the one hand, an early and qualitative example of making the most (often thanks to professional solidarity) of the limited possibilities afforded by the institutional …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Mihály Munkácsy), 2022
… part—and perhaps one of the most valuable portions—of the KEMKI ADK collection. In addition to the documents, it also contains his relics: his furniture, the plaster cast of his right hand, his palette, his mourning ribbon, and the silver laurel wreath given to Mihály Munkácsy in 1882 by his fellow artists along with the National Hungarian Society of Fine Arts (KEMKI ADK Inv. No. 4003/1941)—which, in the present work, appears as a silhouette. The collection also includes the artist’s …
Collection of Artist Relics
The collection of the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Centre (ADK) predominantly contains documents and photographs. Relics related to Hungarian artists make up a special part of the collection. Collecting objects linked to famous people and national heroes was an important element of Hungarian museum 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 …
"Our House" Collection
The part of the collection referred to as “Our House” documents the professional work conducted at the museum. It was created after the Hungarian National Gallery was moved to the Buda Castle in 1975. “Our House Exhibitions” constitutes a key part of this material; it contains the professional documentation of all exhibitions arranged at the Hungarian National Gallery. In the process of expanding the collection, materials were also included not only …
László Beke Archives
… Central and Eastern European) (neo-)avantgarde artists over several decades, as well as his documents, art projects, manuscripts, photographs, slides and printed publications. Of these, the so-called Imagination/Idea project conceived by Beke deserves special mention, along with many aspects of Hungarian conceptual art, mail art, fluxus, land art, happenings, environments, and action art. The László Beke Archive make a valuable contribution towards understanding and processing such …