The recordings of the international conference, held in 2024 in connection with the „Organising the Spectacle” Research on the Avant-garde organized by the Research Department, are now available on the conference website and on the KEMKI Youtube channel . Feel free to explore!
The Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) warmly invites all interested parties to the TÓTalJOY Award ceremony, which will take place on June 24, 2025. Endre Tót and the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) established the TÓTalJOY prize for contemporary artists in 2021. The prize derives its name from Endre Tót’s conceptual program centred on the notion of …
… documenting and researching independent art has constituted a complex problem in Central and Eastern Europe for decades. Retrospectively seeking and organising sources, along with the maintaining and modernising digital platforms, are also often fraught with basic technical, infrastructural, and funding difficulties. What is the current state of independent art archives, databases, and registers in Hungary and internationally. To what extent are they visible? Who uses them and for …
… else entirely? These questions are particularly pressing when viewed from the perspective of Eastern Europe, a region historically shaped by its position at the crossroads of Eastern and Western imperial powers, and where universalist claims have often been difficult to articulate. In this lecture, Joseph Grim Feinberg will present his current research on forms of borderlands internationalism that have emerged in Eastern European history, responding to the region’s …
Open call Endre Tót and the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) established the TÓTalJOY prize for contemporary artists in 2021. The prize derives its name from Endre Tót’s conceptual program centred on the notion of joy, which was launched in the 1970s. His early joy pieces and the actions of the TÓTalJOY series are considered among the most important works representing the narrative of Eastern European …