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… a prominent Hungarian photographer has been added to the Photographic Collection of the SZM-KEMKI ADK. The roll film negatives of György Tóth’s Portraits 1985-1991, which the artist gifted to the Collection, will soon be available for research. These photos by the Rudolf Balogh Prize winning photographer – known mainly for his studies of the human body in motion facilitated by long exposures and special flash techniques – still reflect a documentarist aesthetic, as they portray his artist …

Donation by Dóra Maurer and the SUMUS Foundation The SUMUS Archive was generously donated to ADK's collection in the first half of 2025 by Dóra Maurer and the SUMUS Foundation. The archive contains important documents of Dóra Maurer's and Tibor Gáyor's art: manuscripts, photographs, sketches of Dóra Maurer's visual and performance art, documents of her pedagogical work, along with the professional correspondence of the two artists. With the adoption of the SUMUS Archive – following its …

Workshop-conference on the planned primary source publications of the KEMKI ADK A conference organised by the Museum of Fine Arts – Archive and Documentation Centre (ADK) of the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI). Purpose and syllabus of the conference: Presentation of the MFA – KEMKI ADK and the primary source publication series Methodological issues of primary source publications (art history, literature and history), with …

… on 20 th century art, the research institute incorporates the Archive and Documentation Center (ADK), the Artpool Art Research Center and the newly created Research Department. The combined mission of the work of the three departments is to strengthen academic life in Hungary and to represent Hungarian art and art history at a high level on the international scene by initiating and implementing locally focused, regionally and internationally oriented art history research projects and …

… of an Archive. Possible Approaches to the Oeuvre of Péter Korniss, organized by the SZM-KEMKI ADK Photography Archive, will discuss and present the details they consider important in this complex and far from closed oeuvre, including its photographic, journalistic and art historical, commercial and art theoretical particularities. Morning session 10:00 Welcome speech by Dávid Fehér, director of SZM - KEMKI 10:10 Orsolya Huszár: The development and structure of the Péter Korniss …