… (13:00–15:00) Gitta Ho: At the Center of Interest: Competing Access to Jewish Collections and their Transport from occupied France to Germany 1940-1944 Sina Knopf: Art Transfer and Networks. Alternative Methods of Transferring Art from Occupied France Marieke Maathuis: Women Navigating the Art Market 1940–1945 Lucie Němečková: Josef Cibulka: the Friend of the Fine Arts in Prague during World War II Coffee break (15:00–15:30) …
… and zines that have become widespread in the art world—and which are not presented in this collection display—prioritize aesthetic quality over social and political aspects. In this display we present publications from 1986 to 2003 selected from the rich fanzine collection of the Artpool Art Research Center. The two themes of the selected publications—music (related to punk and other alternative subcultures and/or thematizing music) and political or social issues (mainly by …
concert and video interview marathon On the final day of the collection display, all video interviews in connection with the Fanzine Anatomy will be screened in their entirety. What makes the video interview marathon special is that we will be showing two films – made by Mihály Rácz and Tamás Rupaszov – that we have never shared publicly before. Interviewees: Judit Acsády, sociologist, activist, editor of Nőszemély feminist journal, …
… end of the nineteenth century, museums had long become more than mere showcases for the private collections of privileged collectors, having also turned into community educational spaces for the general public. Likewise, the social and public health museums, which emerged at the turn of the century, did not simply aim to be the latest spaces opening up the hidden treasures of palaces to the public, but rather sought to share a different kind of knowledge connected to the present. All of …
… of Ádám Albert, Ferenc Gróf and Zsófia Gyenes are site-specific works based on research in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Hungarian National Gallery They create an opportunity for institutional self-reflection by dealing with memorial material, searching for possible connection points, and employing a contemporary artistic approach. By recalling and reinterpreting the possibilities of the genre (materials, techniques) and their historical context, the works reflect …