‘the 80s’
Exhibitions and Criticism. Artistic discourses in the 1980s
Few periods in the Hungarian art field have seen such intense, exciting and open debates as the 1980s. The anthology Kiállítások és kritikák [Exhibitions and Criticism], edited by Júliusz Huth and Kristóf Nagy and published by the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), offers a comprehensive exploration of this era. Featuring over fifty essays, reflections and reviews originally …
Years of transition: the 1980s in Hungary and Eastern Europe
Project leader: Júliusz Huth, Kristóf Nagy The Research Department’s project about the 1980s aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of Hungary’s visual arts during the decade, considering cultural and economic policies as well as global contexts and connections. The research project examines key aspects of the period, including the transformation of the art institutional system, major artistic debates, critical discourses, and the …
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 Artpool's …
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 network of …
Júliusz Huth
… in Cluj, Romania and at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. He completed his PhD at the Doctoral School of Philosophy at ELTE in 2024. His research focuses on the history of institutions, exhibitions and visual art-related discourses in the second half of the 20 th century, particularly in Hungary during the 1980s and 1990s. In 2017, he was awarded the Fülep Lajos Prize, and in 2020, he received the Horváth Art Foundation’s Criticism Award. He is a lecturer at the Hungarian …