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We are pleased to announce that a thematic selection of conference papers from KEMKI’s Resonances project is published in the latest issues of ARTMargins Print by MIT Press. The special issue includes articles by Emese Kürti, Cristian Nae, and Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz. Emese Kürti, “Minorities as Hubs of Cultural Transfer: The Bosch+Bosch Group” Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz, “Socialization of the Private? The Emergence of Polish Mail …

The recordings of the international conference, held in 2024 in connection with the „Organising the Spectacle” Research on the Avant-garde organized by the Research Department, are now available on the conference website and on the KEMKI Youtube channel. Feel free to explore!

… conducted by KEMKI ADK. It contains extended and edited texts from the presentations given at the conference entitled Stratification of an Archive: Possible Approaches to the Oeuvre of Péter Korniss. The diversely themed essays in the volume provide new interpretations of attitudes that prevailed in Hungarian documentary photography and photojournalism in the post-WWII period. Illustrated with images from the Péter Korniss Archive (held in the collection of the KEMKI ADK) as …

In summer 2022, the Centre Pompidou devoted a major exhibition to the art and culture of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) in Germany, with the aim of re-reading the history of cultural production in the Weimar Republic, under the keyword “sachlich”, whose difficult translation into other languages points to the special nature of the concept. In addition to painting and photography, the …

The great number of émigrés in the interwar period challenges the concept of national art historical narratives. If an artist, having been raised and educated in Hungary, chooses to live in France, Germany, or the US, to which country’s culture does s/he belong? Does artistic formation weigh as much as the new context that allowed him/her to develop as an artist? Can his/her achievements be …