‘avant-garde’

… will cover a wide range of issues that shaped Hungarian art in the 1980s from the period’s avant-garde art to the system of state cultural institutions, including queer, political and postmodern movements.

… created at the enamelware factory in Bonyhád, which executed many public works of Hungarian neo-avant-garde artists (for example, the creators of the Pécs Workshop) at the turn of the 60s and 70s, and is still in operation today. The tapestries were made by a hybrid, both industrial and artisanal technology (tufting gun).

Conversation with art historian Éva Forgács Éva Forgács is an art historian, avant-garde researcher, and senior fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Kunstuniversität Linz/Wien (IFK). Her book, published last year (2022), Malevich and Interwar Modernism: Russian Art and the International of the Square, opens up a new perspective in the research of avant-garde art by using previously unused sources.   Forgács explores the …

… of its market transformation? Was it the decade of death or the institutionalization of the avant-garde? Was it the heyday of the underground or 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 talk series aims to bring us one step closer to understanding the dynamics of the decade's cultural changes. The series is …

… Female Body Culture and the Concept of Labour in the History of the 20th Century Hungarian Avant-garde 10.40–11.00 Ágnes Sz. Horváth, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest: Kati Horna on the Horizon of the European Left-Wing Movements 11.00–11:20 Ana Avelar, University of Brasília: Sensitive Female Universes: Considerations on the Work of the Hungarian–Brazilian artist Yolanda Mohalyi 11.20 – 11.40 Sára Bagdi – Gábor Dobó, Kassák Museum, Budapest: Mapping multiple modernisms: …