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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 …
Art during the Cold War
Project leader: Daniel Véri This comprehensive research project examines the role of fine arts in the context of the Cold War in the postwar period between 1945 and 1975. The projects within this programme take an interdisciplinary approach, at the intersection of art history, exhibition history, and cultural diplomacy (soft power), in order to illuminate the artistic nodes of bilateral and regional international relations and to examine …
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