‘history’
Art during the Cold War
… The projects within this programme take an interdisciplinary approach, at the intersection of art history, exhibition history, and cultural diplomacy (soft power), in order to illuminate the artistic nodes of bilateral and regional international relations and to examine the memory of the Holocaust in fine arts in the context of Cold War confrontation and East–West rivalry. The two ongoing research projects are The Modern Idol: Henry Moore in the Eastern Bloc and Holocaust and the Arts. …
Cold War Modernisms
… Center (ADK) of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), which was founded in 2021. The volume entitled Seeing the Whole Picture is edited by Katalin Bakos and Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári. Authors include Katalin Bakos, Barbara Dudás, Ágnes Képiró, Mária Madár, Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári, György Szücs, Károly Tóth, Ádám Várkonyi, Dániel Véri.
"Active - archive - research" workshop
… explore the collection. They will also learn about the complementary but different methods of art history and cultural studies, and gain insights into the conceptual and theoretical framework of memory and archive research. The learning (in the words of György Galántai) becomes an exchange of ideas, and the results further enrich the possibilities of thinking about Artpool as an active archive. The workshop will consist of three sessions (26 October, 9 and 23 November 2023), online …
Ildikó Eleöd
Head of Secretariat She is a graduate of the Programs in Art History and French Language, Literature and Culture at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Between 2010 and 2016, she worked as an exhibition organizer and collection manager at MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art in Debrecen. In addition to working on processing the Antal Lusztig Collection, she was also, for instance, curator of the exhibition entitled The Plain: Stories from the Past …
Judit Galácz
… and international relations. In 2013-2014, she completed a one-year MA programme in Comparative History at the Central European University. From 2014 until 2021, she was a staff member for popular education at the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute – Gizi Bajor Actors’ Museum. In 2017, she curated an exhibition on the theatrical work of Lajos Kassák and the journal MA at the Gizi Bajor Actors’ Museum. Her PhD research focuses on János Mácza’s work in the field of theatre theory and the …