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Organising the Spectacle: Research on the Avantgarde
Project leader: Sára Bárdi – Magdolna Gucsa – Eszter Őze Our research on the avantgarde examines the media, institutional changes and series of events that characterised the period in the context late 19 th – early 20 th century social movements and mass culture. It goes beyond the aesthetic interpretations of art and approaches it through its social embeddedness and international framework, in line with methods and inquiries from the interdisciplinary …
László Beke Archive and Research
… family's decision, which is an honour for us. The archive is now the central source of the KEMKI Research Department’s work in processing Beke’s oeuvre, under the aegis of the Resonances project. The archive will be opened to external researchers after organisation and processing. In the second half of 2025, JRP|Editions will publish a volume compiled by the research department of KEMKI and tranzit.hu, containing the English translations of László Beke's most important theoretical …
TÓTalJOY Prize
Research based art prize Project leader: Brigitta Ádi Visual artist Endre Tót, founder and supporter of the TÓTalJOY Prize, had long been planning to create a form of support for contemporary Hungarian artists. The prize derives its name from Endre Tót’s conceptual program centred on the notion of joy, which was launched in the 1970s. His early joy pieces and the actions of the TÓTalJOY …
György Galántai
Founder, Art-researcher Born in 1941 in Bikács (Hungary) Graduated as a painter in 1967 from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. Multimedia artist, art researcher. His view of art shows close ties with the spirit of Fluxus, which rejected the creation of traditional art works and defined the task of art as inventing conceptual objects, creative situations, as well as permanent creative and …
Emese Kürti
Deputy Director for Research, Head of Department, Art Historian From 2018 to 2021, she was a researcher at the Artpool Art Research Center, then Head of Department from 2021 to 2022. She is currently Head of the Department of Research and Deputy Director of Research at the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI). Previously, she was a lecturer at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and …