‘avantgard’

The recordings of the international 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!

… outside the institutional system and operates under unique conditions – sometimes referred to as avantgarde, alternative, experimental or independent art – is largely documented with few resources as a result of grassroots initiatives and, through self-organisation. Due to limited resources, support and organisation, documents and data about artworks and events may be incomplete or even completely missing. Since the 1990s, cultural institutions have undergone a gradual transformation, while …

… 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 …