‘experimental art’
Seeing the Whole Picture: Studies on the Work of György Konecsni
György Konecsni’s art is characterized by a diversity of styles and forms. He is known by many as a poster artist and a pioneer of modern Hungarian applied graphics, and by others as the co-creator of one of the most cited works of historicist socialist realism, Before the Storm (1951). Beyond exploring Konecsni’s body of works from new perspectives, the authors of this new volume published by the Central …
Emese Kürti
Deputy Director for Research, Head of Department, Art Historian From 2018 to 2021, she was a researcher at the Artpool Art Research Center, then Head of Department from 2021 to 2022. She is currently Head of the Department of Research and Deputy Director of Research at the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI). Previously, she was a lecturer at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and Central European University …
Cold War Modernisms
… stamp designs and illustrations, and also receiving commissions for fairground and monumental art projects. Based on the artist’s estate, which has been preserved and looked after by his heirs, beyond this well known image of the graphic idol, a much more nuanced picture emerges of the artist’s activities. György Konecsni’s experimentally spirited oeuvre, encompassing a wide variety of genres and techniques – and a new understanding of the artist himself, who struggled between the …
TÓTalJOY Prize
Project leader: Brigitta Ádi Visual artist Endre Tót, founder and supporter of the TÓTalJOY Prize, had long been planning to create a form of support for contemporary Hungarian artists. The prize derives its name from Endre Tót’s conceptual program centred on the notion of joy, which was launched in the 1970s. His early joy pieces and the actions of the TÓTalJOY series are considered among the most important works of Eastern …
Years of transition: the 1980s in Hungary and Eastern Europe
Project leader: Júliusz Huth, Kristóf Nagy The Research Department’s project about the 1980s aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of Hungary’s visual arts during the decade, considering cultural and economic policies as well as global contexts and connections. The research project examines key aspects of the period, including the transformation of the art institutional system, major artistic debates, critical discourses, and the emergence of new …