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… 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 …

… SZM- KEMKI), Nóra Lukács (Curator, Berlin), Michal Novotný (Head of the Modern and Contemporary Collection, National Gallery, Prague), Berenika Partum (Curator, Berlin, daughter of Ewa Partum and Endre Tót) and Zsolt Petrányi (Head of Department, SZM - Hungarian National Gallery, Contemporary Art Department). In the judging process, preference was given to submissions that respond to changing cultural contexts and contemporary dilemmas. The jury selected Rita Süveges’s entry Shout to …

… exhibited at the first Hungarian exhibition in Auschwitz in 1960 as well as a monumental fine arts collection commissioned for the 1965 permanent exhibition at the same venue. With the addition of the earliest Hungarian artworks dealing with the Roma Holocaust, the current exhibition highlights the absence of the issue from the 1960s shows. The exhibition takes place at the Galeria Centralis of the Blinken OSA Archivum in Budapest, which is the same institution that reconstructed the …

… Director 10:40-11:10 am           Ferenc Tóth : The Development of the Modern Foreign Collection Under the Directorship of Elek Petrovics 11:10-11:40 am          Péter Molnos : Elek Petrovics – The Collector of Collectors 11:40 am-12:10 pm    István Németh : Marcell Nemes: Patron of the Petrovics Era 12:10-1:30 pm            Lunch break   SECTION II, section leader: Ferenc Gosztonyi 1:30-2:00 pm Katalin Keserü : “Pure and True Art” – Elek Petrovics …

… renowned art historian László Beke, who passed away in 2022, was transferred to the KEMKI ADK collection in 2023 thanks to the family's honourable decision, and thus became the main pillar of the Beke's life work processing carried out by the Research Department of KEMKI under the umbrella of the Resonances project. Once arranged and processed, the archive will be accessible to external researchers. In service of László Beke’s oeuvre and the visibility of his archive, a collection of …