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Traveling research seminars 2022—2024 - call for application The Leibniz-Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), with joint support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Getty Foundation through its Connecting Art Histories initiative, is launching a new series of traveling research seminars to explore relationships between the U.S. and East-Central European art scenes after 1945. Led by Dr. …

Open call. KEMKI Methodological Workshop The Central European Research Institute for the History of Art (KEMKI) is organising a workshop for art history and art theory students. The workshop aims to introduce young professionals to the methodology of art history and art theory research and the practical challenges of research-based work. Following the participants will jointly create an …

… museological, collection history, art, photography, and technical history aspects of this historically significant photo collection as well as its relevance to contemporary art.   Conference program:   10:00 – 10:30  Welcome speeches Dr. László Baán, general director, Museum of Fine Arts Dr. Gábor Kecskeméti, academic, president of MTA200 EB Dávid Fehér, director, Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI)   10:30 – 11:00  …

… György Galántai puts it, an active archive “generates the very material to be archived” through calls for participation, cooperation, exchange, and building of non-hierarchical networks, as well as through combining art historical and artistic methodologies of research. An active archive is future-oriented and employs a dynamic approach to history “as an open artwork and as an activist artistic practice”. The main activity of Artpool to this day is conducting non-medium specific research …

… in Socialism and Postsocialism We invite proposals for a forthcoming edited volume that critically examines the infrastructures of art markets in Central and Eastern Europe during and after the socialist era. This peer-reviewed volume aims to shed light on the diverse systems that enabled the production, distribution, and exchange of modern and contemporary art, not only through established institutions but also through lesser-known or subversive practices. By exploring both formal and …