‘museum history’
GRÓF Ferenc – GYENES Zsófia: (Dis)organigram – Studio of Young Artist and Designers 2022
… silicate industry and silversmithing. Their first exhibition was held in 1984 at the Ernst Museum; their own exhibition space was opened at 16 Kálmán Imre Street. After the change of regime in 1990, the FIS became a public benefit association and changed its name to Studio of Young Designers Association (Fiatal Iparművészek Stúdiója Egyesület, FISE). For more on the history of FISE, visit their website: https://www.fise.hu/www/?language=en Logo designed by Judit DÁNOS
GRÓF Ferenc: Somewhere between 0 and 1 (Hungarian National Painting Grey), 2016–2023
… two numbers. The work is directly connected to the face of the sundial presented at the Kiscell Museum’s exhibition entitled Without Index (2016),[1] alluding to the state of uncertainty that characterises the city described in Tibor Déry’ s novel Mr. A.G. in X (1964), which served as a reference point of the exhibition. In this fictional city, all exists in a state of constant oscillation between the nothingness of Zero and the certainty of One, creating a grey area that forever …
Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári
… 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 a museologist at the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Centre (ADK), she is mainly focused on the processing of the archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts. Her research interests include the Hungarian art and institutional history of the second half of the 20th century, and more specifically, the public and poster art of the …
Zsófia Beke
Chief Museologist, Research Services (Archive) She graduated from the programs in Art History and Italian Studies of the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE), and received her doctorate degree in 2005. Her dissertation focused on the spatial-theoretical synthesis of painting in the 1990s’ in Hungary. In 1995-1996, she was an art historian at the Hanság Museum of Mosonmagyaróvár, and between 1995 and 1998, she was a researcher at the Institute for Art History …
Magdolna Gucsa
Art Historian Research fellow at the Central European Research Institute for Art History, working in avantgarde research. She holds an MA in art history from Eötvös Loránd University and a BA in international economics from Corvinus University of Budapest. She spent a semester at the University Paris-Nanterre. She completed her joint PhD in 2023 in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris, art history) and Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE, …