‘industrial design’
GRÓF Ferenc – GYENES Zsófia: (Dis)organigram – Studio of Young Artist and Designers 2022
130 x 190 cm, hand-stitched carpet The Studio of Young Designers (Fiatal Iparművészek Stúdiója, FIS) was founded in October 1982 as a member organisation of the Art Fund of the Hungarian People’s Republic. From its establishment, it had six departments: interior design, industrial design, applied graphics, textiles, silicate industry and silversmithing. Their first exhibition was held in 1984 at the Ernst Museum; their own exhibition space was opened …
Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári
Museologist (Archive of the Lectorate) She earned an MA in Design Theory from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) in 2015. In the same year, she was awarded the Ernő Kállai Art Critic Scholarship, in the framework of which she focused on the exhibition activities and international relations of the Council of Applied Arts (1955-1975). She began to work in the Data Archives of the Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery in 2015. As …
The Design Center Archives
In 2023 and thanks to Mihály Pohárnok, the archives of the Information Centre of Industrial Design (better known as the Design Center), became part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK). The organisation was established in 1975 within the framework of the Chamber of Commerce, which—alongside the Industrial Design Council Office—carried out representative and influential work in the field of Hungarian …
Contemporary Art in KEMKI
… Pécs Workshop) were created. The tapestries were made using a tufting gun, employing a hybrid of industrial technology and handicraft. By invoking the artists’ earlier experiments and installations (which also bring into play traditions from the history of institutions, collections and cultural education, and which can be found in the Contemporary Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery), as well as other precursors of the neo-avantgarde (including the enamel works of Imre Bak, …