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Contemporary Art in KEMKI
… of the public art of Hungarian neo-avantgarde artists (including those affiliated with the Pécs Workshop) were created. The tapestries were made using a tufting gun, employing a hybrid of industrial technology and handicraft. By invoking the artists’ earlier experiments and installations (which also bring into play traditions from the history of institutions, collections and cultural education, and which can be found in the Contemporary Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery), as …
Educational events
… public, and therefore periodically prepares a new series of events. KEMKI Methodology Workshop These workshops are offered to students of art history and art theory, with the aim of familiarising young professionals with the methodology of art history- and art theory-related research. Participants are also invited to explore the practical challenges involved in research-based work, through creating imaginary projects (exhibition, event, research) based on their interests. …
Kristóf Nagy
… At KEMKI’s Research Department, in 2024, he is tasked with leading the international workshop Infrastructures of Trading and Transferring Art Since 1900, and the editor of an anthology of art criticism from the 1980s. List of publications Publications
Mission and Goals
… regionally focused, international research projects accompanied by international conferences, workshops, the publication of volumes containing academic essays and the curation of complex museum exhibitions. In addition to collecting, conserving and researching, one of our main ambitions is to play a proactive role in the current discourses surrounding art. Given this, one of our central objectives is to combine and merge the three departments' tasks and strategies and become thus a …
Organising the Spectacle: Research on the Avantgarde
Project leader: Magdolna Gucsa, Eszter Őze Our research on the avantgarde examines the media, institutional changes and series of events that characterised the period in the context late 19 th -early 20 th century social movements and mass culture. It goes beyond the aesthetic interpretations of art and approaches it through its social embeddedness and international framework, in line with …