‘archive’

… colored felt-tip pen. Photographer: Martina Giersch. Courtesy of the artists & Flondor Family Archive. Banner: Petr Štembera: Connection (with Tom Marioni), 1975. Photomechanical reproduction on a card. László Beke Archive, Museum of Fine Arts-KEMKI. Image courtesy of Petr Štembera and KEMKI.

… It was the great honour of the KEMKI ADK collection to receive, as per the family’s decision, his archives in 2023. László Beke earned his degree in Art History-Hungarian Language and Literature in 1968, and subsequently became a staff member of the Art History Documentation Centre. In the early seventies, in parallel with his institutional work, he became a leading figure of the Hungarian and regional progressive art movement. It was also during these years that he began building his …

The archive of the internationally renowned art historian László Beke, who passed away in 2022, was transferred to the KEMKI ADK collection in 2023 thanks to the family's honourable decision, and thus became the main pillar of the Beke's life work processing carried out by the Research Department of KEMKI under the umbrella of the Resonances project. Once arranged and processed, the archive will be …

Donation of Photographer György TÓTH We are pleased to announce that another outstandingly significant series by 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 …

On 26 October 2023, archive research workshops will be launched at the Artpool Art Research Center. The group of seven people (university students and young researchers from different professional backgrounds) will start their work under the leadership of Andrea Pócsik, cultural researcher. The idea of the "laboratory" is based on the unique feature of Artpool that participants can develop their own research …