… 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 …
Researcher From 2016 to 2018, Anna Szirmai worked at the Artpool Art Research Center. As of 2023, she is a researcher in the Research Department of the Central European Research Institute for Art History. In 2020, she received her PhD from the Doctoral School of Literary Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University. In her dissertation, she discussed experimental trends in Italian poetry in the 1960s and 1970s. In the first half of 2024, …
The László Beke Archive contains the correspondence of art historian, art writer, and theoretician László Beke (1944–2022) with Hungarian and international (especially 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 …
The Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) was established in 2021 as an affiliate of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Our mission is to strengthen Hungary's academic discourse and represent Hungarian art and art history at a high standard globally by initiating and implementing locally focused, regional and international research projects and collaborations connected to art-historical issues. The research …