… of the Museum of Fine Arts. We have now compiled the edited lectures of this conference into one volume, which we are pleased to share with the modern reader in honor of our distinguished predecessor, Elek Petrovics.’ (excerpt from the foreword by László Baán, Director General of the Museum of Fine Arts) The 336-page, richly illustrated volume contains expanded versions of the lectures given at the conference held in 2023 to honor the 150th birth anniversary of the distinguished …
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 …
… reflections and reviews originally published during the 1980s, alongside a new, comprehensive study on the art criticism of the decade, the volume delves into the art discourses of the era. The volume examines key artistic debates on postmodernism, new painting, socialism, and the art market, situating them within the broader historical context of the decade's transformative cultural, political and social landscape. Júliusz Huth, member of the KEMKI Research Department and lecturer …
… expansion of the archives is expected in the near future. Related contents: Study Volume Book Launch, 03/04/2025 Conference, 29/09/2025
… 1989 in East-Central European Art further strengthened the international dimension of the study. Ongoing since 2022, the research has included a conference titled The Flowers of Decay– The Art of Hungary in the 1980s , interviews with key figures from the decade, and an extensive review of 1980s art criticism. This work culminated in an anthology analysing the debates that shaped the Hungarian art scene during the period. Published in Hungarian, the volume is titled …