‘the 80s’
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 …
Júlia Klaniczay
Founder, Advisor Cofounder of the illegal Artpool (with artist György Galántai in 1979), and from 1992 till 2020 director of Artpool Art Research Center, operating till 2015 as an NGO and since 2015 as a department of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. From 1977 to 1992 editor responsible of Akadémiai Kiadó, the publishing house of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and from the beginnings till 2020 leader of …
Artist Archives of the Future
Cooperation with the Andrzej Partum Archives Within the framework of the collaboration “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 …
Júliusz Huth
… and at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Art History department of the Doctoral School of Philosophy at the ELTE and a professor at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. He is also active as an art critic and is a member of the Hungarian Section of AICA (International Association of Art Critics). His PhD research engages with the history of infrastructure of exhibited art in Hungary from the socialist period to the early 2000’s …
Kristóf Nagy
… Sociologist He works at KEMKI’s Research Department, where he is involved in a project on the art of the 1980s. He studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, as well as sociology and anthropology at Central European University (CEU). He is currently pursuing his PhD at CEU, where, in 2024, he received the Award for Advanced Doctoral Students. He is also an editor of the social theory journal Fordulat, and lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). He has …