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Kristóf Nagy
Art Historian, Sociologist He studied art history at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London and sociology and anthropology at Central European University (CEU). He submitted his doctoral dissertation at CEU in 2024, where he was awarded the Advanced PhD Award in the same year. He is working on a project at the Research Department of KEMKI focusing on the art of the 1980s. As part of this, he organized the Flowers of Decay conference in 2022 and …
GRÓF Ferenc – GYENES Zsófia: (Dis)organigram – State Gallery Company, 2022
130 x 190 cm, hand-stitched carpet After the Hungarian private sector and retail trade were brought under state ownership between 1948 and 1950, the commercial trade of contemporary artworks also came under state control. In 1952, for the purposes of selling the works of its contemporary artist members, the Art Fund of the Hungarian People’s Republic established the Gallery Company (Képcsarnok Vállalat), with its own exhibition space …
GRÓF Ferenc – GYENES Zsófia: (Dis)organigram – State Art Foundation, 2022
250 x 170 cm, hand-stitched carpet Once the Hungarian art world had been brought under state control in 1948, a large state-owned art company was created whose name was changed several times. Initially it was known as the Fine Art Fund, then—with the merger with the Literary and Music Fund—it was referred to as the Art Fund of the Hungarian People’s Republic (Art Fund, for short). Its main task was to provide an economic basis for the …
GRÓF Ferenc – GYENES Zsófia: (Dis)organigram – Stúdió Gallery, 2022 2022
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 …
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