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 …
Regional and Transregional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 1970s Project leader: Emese Kürti, Zsuzsa László The Resonances research project examines the historical relationships, interactions, collaborations, cultural-political-social differences and similarities between the art scenes of the Central and Eastern European region from the second half of the 1960s to the fall of communism. Between 2021 and 2023, the first phase of the …
Edited Volume of Selected Papers from the Artpool40 Conference In February 2020, we organized an international conference entitled Artpool40 - Active Archives and Art Networks on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the foundation 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 …
Art Historian Between 2018-2022 she worked at Artpool Art Research Center. From 2022 on she is part of the Research Department at Central European Research Institute for Art History. Since 2020 she has been a PhD fellow at the Film, Media and Cultural Theory Doctoral Program at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Her research focuses on the role of the technological mediums in the post-1960s …
Research Assistant She graduated in 2020 with a Bachelor's degree in Design Culture from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, then earned her Master's degree in Design Theory with a curatorial specialization. Her main areas of interest include research-based art and the intersections of public space, art, and design. She is currently a lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and …