‘80s research’

… 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 published during the 1980s, alongside a new, comprehensive study on the art …

… system under the radar: with Gábor Andrási, Tamás Török and Tibor Várnagy What was the 1980s in Hungarian art? Was it the democratization of the art system or the beginning of its market transformation? Was it the decade of death or the institutionalization of the avant-garde? Was it the heyday of the underground or painting? The 1980s are both far away and close to us: fewer and fewer key players are active, but despite the emerging research efforts on the art of the decade, we …

International Conference Organized by: ICMA – The Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in the Arts, UNAGE, Iasi, Romania. In collaboration with: Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, KEMKI-Central European Research Institute for Art History, Budapest and the University of Lodz. CONFERENCE PROGRAM Thursday, October 12 9.45 – 10.00 – Introduction 10.00 – 12.00 Panel 1: Revisiting socialist art: state-supported institutions, exhibitions, and …

Lecture of Katja Praznik, Slovenian cultural researcher The recently published volume Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021) by Katja Praznik, a Slovenian cultural researcher at the University at Buffalo’s Arts Management Program, opens up a new perspective on the study of Eastern European art in the 1980s. Praznik argues that it is through understanding creative art …

Conference about the art of Hungary in the 1980s, organized by KEMKI Research Department The Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) is organising a conference on the art of Hungary in the 1980s. The goal of the event is to initiate collective professional discourse on the art of the 1980s and to identify the most important but under-researched areas and topics related to the period’s Hungarian art as well as those …