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… undergone a gradual transformation, while the widespread availability of the internet has also radically increased the range of documentation possibilities. Nonetheless, documenting and researching independent art has constituted a complex problem in Central and Eastern Europe for decades.  Retrospectively seeking and organising sources, along with the maintaining and modernising digital platforms, are also often fraught with basic technical, infrastructural, and funding difficulties. What …

… are particularly pressing when viewed from the perspective of Eastern Europe, a region historically shaped by its position at the crossroads of Eastern and Western imperial powers, and where universalist claims have often been difficult to articulate. In this lecture, Joseph Grim Feinberg will present his current research on forms of borderlands internationalism that have emerged in Eastern European history, responding to the region’s imperialisms and nationalisms. With a …

… Süveges’s installation evokes the immaterial aesthetics of technological development, metallically glittering and invariably vanishing. Elevating our imagination to the level of the clouds, it gives flashes of insights into weather magic, the critiques of techno-optimism and the high stakes of geoengineering, doing so in red-glowing apparitions. The TÓTalJOY Prize was established by the Museum of Fine Arts - Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) with the …

… among the most important works of the Eastern European conceptual art. The third TÓTalJOY call, announced in January 2025, received thirty-seven research-based artistic project proposals. From these, the jury shortlisted the work of four artists whose projects sensitively reflect on contemporary artistic and social issues: Lőrinc Borsos Ferenc Gróf and Zsófia Gyenes Klaudia Januško Dorottya Vékony The 2025 jury members are: René Block (curator, …

… January 2023, attracted 38 artists with project plans based on artistic research, in line with the call for entries and the objectives of the prize. The jury of nine, was composed of Hungarian and international members: Zdenka Badovinac (Director, Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU), Zagreb), René Block (curator, gallerist, Berlin), Dávid Fehér (Director, SZM - KEMKI), Tamás Kaszás (artist, winner of the 2021 prize), Emese Kürti (researcher, SZM- KEMKI), Nóra Lukács (Curator, Berlin), Michal …