‘80s research’

The 1980s as Gesamtkunstwerk. Participants:Vera Baksa-Soós, János Sugár, János Vető 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 when avant-garde died, or when it was institutionalized? Was it the heyday of the underground or of painting? The 1980s are both far away and close to us: fewer and …

… 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 …

… the Netherlands. Kristóf Nagy, PhD, Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University, US; Permanent Research Fellow at the KEMKI - Central European Research Institute for Art History, Hungary; Prof. Dr. Lynn Rother, Professor for Provenance Studies at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany and Adjunct Curator for Provenance at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Submission Guidelines: Please send an abstract (max. 500 words) and a short biography (max. 150 words) to …