‘exhibitions’
The Design Center Archives
… The Design Center, on the other hand, helped the development and promotion of design by organising exhibitions and disseminating information. In addition, the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts was responsible for the activities of certification, evaluation and tendering in the field of design (often also playing a censorship role). The Chamber of Commerce asked Mihály Pohárnok, who was one of the inventors and leading figures behind the complex environmental design experiment of the Kitchen …
The Béla Gruber Documents
… a thousand works. Béla Gruber’s works can be found in numerous public collections and permanent exhibitions. He entrusted the care and estate of his paintings to his sister, Ágota Gruber Strakovitsné, who carried out this task dutifully for decades. In addition to taking stock of artworks and written records, she also continuously collected references to her brother’s art. In July 2017, she donated her collection of written records and art reviews to the Art Archive collection of the Museum …
From the Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts: Minutes of Exhibition Authorisation Meetings
… From 1963 onwards, the Lectorate had a primarily censorial role in the system of authorising exhibitions and the works showcased at those exhibitions. When it came to the most prominent exhibition spaces (Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest, Ernst Museum, Csók Gallery, Mednyánszky Hall, and Adolf Fényes Hall, etc.), and rural exhibition spaces of national significance, it was the Fine Arts Department of the Ministry of Education that approved the creation of exhibitions. After approving a …
The Estate of Lajos Tihanyi
… only the basic data of the given painting or graphic piece, but also the name of its owner and the exhibitions where the given work had been showcased, thereby making it possible to trace the precise history and provenance of each piece. /Judit Galácz/
György Tóth: Portraits (1985–1991)
… Tóth also included sixty-two signed digital prints, which had previously been featured in his exhibitions or in publications. The pieces of the series document György Tóth network of professional contacts in the contemporary art scene of the 1980s. It also offers insight into an important period of his then ongoing oeuvre, when such props were already beginning to make their appearance from his dreamlike shots of the nineties as studio backgrounds, flashes, compositional elements and …