‘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. …
The Oeuvre of György Konecsni
… 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 …
Artpool40 – Active Archives and Art Networks
… of Artpool and its concurrent relocation to the Central European Research Institute of Art History of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. It aims to map the cultural-political-historical contexts of Artpool's activity by bringing together scholars and practitioners interested in transnational research on artist archives, progressive curatorial and museological practices, and the historiography of Cold War art scenes and networks. The conference takes Artpool’s 1979 concept of an “ …
Resonances
… in collaboration with Andrea Euringer Bátorova (Comenius University, Bratislava, Department of Art History), Pavlína Morganova, Dagmar Svatosova, Lujza Kotočová (Academy of Fine Arts Research Institute, Prague), Hana Buddeus (Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art History) and Magdalena Radomska (Piotr Piotrowski Centre for Research on East-Central European Art, Poznań), and supported by the grant of Visegrad Fund. The international research team investigated cultural transfers …