‘research’
Artist Archives of the Future
… the Andrzej Partum Archive (managed by Muzeum Sztuki) and Artpool staff are conducting comparative research in one another’s respective archives. The Andrzej Partum Archive (1938 - 2002), named after a prominent artist and theorist of the Polish neo-avantgarde, represents the art network of the 1970s and 1980s. Similarly to – and in part overlapping with – Artpool, it has a significant collection of mail art, including works by several Hungarian artists (e.g. Sándor Pinczehelyi, …
TÓTalJOY Prize
… aims to provide financial and institutional support to contemporary artists whose practice is research-oriented. Entries to the annually announced open call are expected from contemporary artists who are prepared to present art research-based project proposals with a view to implementation. In the judging process, preference is given to submissions that respond to changing cultural contexts and contemporary dilemmas. In response to the first call, announced in July 2021, 27 project …
Resonances
… for neo-avant-garde art of Central-East Europe. Running from 2021 to 2024, this collaborative research project will first take the form of a traveling four-chapter conference in Bratislava, Budapest, Prague, and Poznan, followed by a prospective traveling exhibition and catalog. This project applies theories of cultural transfer (cross-border contacts triggering mutual changes in cultural concepts and practices), histoire croisée (interlinked history), and cultural translation to the …
Years of transition: the 1980s in Hungary and Eastern Europe
Project leader: Júliusz Huth, Kristóf Nagy The aim of the Research Department’s research on the 1980s is a comprehensive examination of the decade’s visual arts in Hungary, taking into account cultural and economic policy-related aspects, as well as international contexts and connections. The research focuses on studying the transformation of the system of art institutions, the major art-related debates and critical discourses of the decade, the …
Educational events
In addition to its own research projects, the KEMKI Research Department attaches great importance to rendering the methodology and results of its art-historical research accessible to the wider public, and therefore periodically prepares a new series of events. KEMKI Methodology Workshop These workshops are offered to students of art history and art theory, with the aim of familiarising young …