‘avantgard’

In the visual arts, the dissemination of current trends, ideas, and institutional models has always been made possible by actors who have permanently or temporarily crossed geographical and cultural borders. The conference explores the motivations behind the relocation of Central and Eastern European visual artists to urban centres specifically in the interwar period. These often followed …

… the Catholic Church between 1970 and 1973, operated for four summers as a space for presenting avantgarde art experiments. Now, in 2023, it serves as a venue for several exhibitions and events, organised within the framework of the VEB2023 EKF project entitled Unexpected Culture, in commemoration of the most successful year of its operation in 1973, as well as the fiftieth anniversary of its permanent shutdown by the authorities. As part of the program, visual artist Hajnal Németh …