‘avant-garde’

… consequences of significant topics he researched, including the delayed reception of the avant-garde, the post-socialist transition, the “digital turn”, progressive museology, and memory politics. Participants: Flóra Barkóczi, Dávid Fehér, József Havasréti, Júliusz Huth, Tímea Junghaus, Zsolt K. Horváth, Emese Kürti, Zsuzsa László, Eszter Lázár – Edina Nagy, András Müllner, Eszter Őze, Balázs Sipos, Katalin Székely. Photo: Tamás Féner

… 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 fewer key players are active, but despite the emerging research efforts on the art of the decade, we still do not have a clear understanding of it. This series of discussions, organised in the framework of KEMKI's research project about …

… in public spaces, he constantly navigated between techniques, media, and genres. Influenced by the avant-garde and concrete art, his work engages a conceptual stance as much as it evokes Fluxus attitudes. This chamber exhibition at Artpool aims to highlight Vigo’s special relationship with artists’ periodicals and show how he embraced this medium, having quickly realized that these publications, as shared creative spaces that are simple to produce, are also powerful means of dissemination. …

We are pleased to announce that a thematic selection of conference papers from KEMKI’s Resonances project is published in the latest issues of ARTMargins Print by MIT Press. The special issue includes articles by Emese Kürti, Cristian Nae, and Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz. Emese Kürti, “Minorities as Hubs of Cultural Transfer: The Bosch+Bosch Group” Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz, …

… 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!