130 x 190 cm, hand-stitched carpet Founded in 1958, the Studio of Young Artists initially organised its own exhibitions at various venues, before establishing the Studio Gallery, which primarily hosted the solo and group exhibitions of its members. From the 1980s onwards, the Studio Gallery became one of the most prominent and influential exhibition spaces on the Hungarian contemporary art scene. Between 1972 and 1994, it was located at 62 …
In 2023 and thanks to Mihály Pohárnok, the archives of the Information Centre of Industrial Design (better known as the Design Center), became part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK). The organisation was established in 1975 within the framework of the Chamber of Commerce, which—alongside the Industrial Design Council Office—carried out representative and …
The archival material of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts—which comprises part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts–Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK)—contains the minutes of meetings that were held from the 1960s to the 1980s for the purpose of evaluating exhibition proposals awaiting official authorisation. From 1963 onwards, the Lectorate had a primarily …
The Endre Tót Archives preserve art and historical documents of outstanding significance and value. When Endre Tót defected to West Berlin, his belongings were transferred to his brother. Later and at the artist’s request, the material was placed in the storage facility of the Contemporary Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery. It was gifted to the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European …
… photographer György Tóth is a prominent figure of contemporary Hungarian photography. Over the last thirty years his signature slow shutter studies of the human body in motion have been the central component of his oeuvre. Before the 1990s, Tóth was still engaged in documentary photography. Portraits 1985–1991 is an important series from this period in several respects. He donated the negatives of the collection to the Photographic Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central …