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… behind the relocation of Central and Eastern European visual artists to urban centres specifically in the interwar period. These often followed patterns: artists with formal art training included travel as part of their curriculum, financed by various funds or grants; changes in political regimes forced others to leave their home countries for shorter or longer periods; and most enjoyed the help of personal, professional or political networks while abroad. In addition to analysing …

… 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 …

Open call Endre Tót and the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) established the TÓTalJOY prize for contemporary artists in 2021. The prize derives its name from Endre Tót’s conceptual program centred on the notion of joy, which was launched in the 1970s. His early joy pieces and the actions of the TÓTalJOY series are considered among the most important works representing the …

… 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 …

From the second half of the 1980s alternative self-published and technically inexpensive publications emerged that (unlike samizdat) were themed around (and for) a particular subculture, scene or fan community. In the 1990s, liberation of social organizing, together with the growing availability of photocopying and Western models, created the ideal conditions for the flourishing of fanzines as a genre. This intense period seems to have come to an end in the 2000s …