‘museum history’
What Will Be Already Exists: Temporalities of Cold War Archives in East-Central Europe and Beyond
… of Artpool and its concurrent relocation to the Central European Research Institute of Art History of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. The study volume related to the conference, edited by Emese Kürti and Zsuzsa László, is published by Transcript, one of Europe's leading independent scientific publishers. How do artist archives survive and stay authentic in radically changed contexts? The volume addresses the challenge of continuity, sustainability, and institutionalization of …
Dávid Fehér
Director Dávid Fehér is Director of the Central European Research Institute for Art History of the Museum of Fine Arts, curator of 20 th century and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, and assistant professor at the Institute of Art History, Eötvös Loránd University. He defended his PhD dissertation on the art of László Lakner at Eötvös Loránd University in 2018. His field of research is Central and Eastern European art history after 1960, with a special focus on the …
Ferenc Gosztonyi
Project-Leader, Chief Museologist He graduated from the Department of Art History at ELTE in 1999 and from the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature in 2000. From 1999 to 2002 he was a young research fellow at the Research Group for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. From 2002 to 2006 he worked at the Hungarian National Gallery, and from 2006 to 2009 at the Museum of Fine Arts in the Collection of International Art after 1800. Since 2022 he has …
Cold War Modernisms
… is the first original publication of the Archive and Documentation 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.
Organising the Spectacle: Research on the Avantgarde
… framework, in line with methods and inquiries from the interdisciplinary crossovers of social history and art theory, such as urbanism, sociology of art, intellectual history, and cultural transfer. The central concept of the research program is the metropolis, understood as the large urban centers that emerged in the early 20 th century. The research project examines artistic production during the interwar period in relation to the broader social and cultural transformations of the …