‘avant-garde’

… 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!

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 …

Digital selection from the Poetry Bureau (Andrzej Partum) and Artpool collections. "Artists are like seismographs foreseeing future tectonic movements. In the same decade, the 1970s, unusual institutions were established both in Budapest and Warsaw: Artpool by György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay, and Andrzej Partum’s Poetry Bureau. It was clear to everyone that something extraordinary was …

… Objectivité / August Sander (with Florian Ebner 2022); Chagall, Lissitzky, Malévitch - the Russian Avant-Garde at Vitebsk 1918-1922 (Centre Pompidou, Jewish Museum New York, 2018); Paul Klee. L’ironie à l’œuvre (2016); Robert Delaunay. Rhythmes sans fin (2014); Vues d’en haut (Centre PompidouMetz, 2013); Edvard Munch, Modern Eye (with Clément Chéroux, Centre Pompidou, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Tate Modern 2011-2012) ; Marc Chagall et l’avant-garde russe (Japan, Grenoble, Toronto, 2011). She …

… native Hungary, as well as the co-edited volume Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910-1930 (The MIT Press, Boston, 2002). Her recent title, Malevich and Interwar Modernism: Russian Art and the International of the Square (Bloomsbury, London, 2022), examines the Russian and European interwar avant-garde.