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… individual artists as well as entire stylistic tendencies. Thanks to the quality of his work and a cultural and diplomatic campaign by the British Council, Moore‘s art was also widely known in Czechoslovakia and the rest of the former Eastern Bloc. Working with a detailed chronology, the exhibition explores the diplomatic framework and other mechanisms involved in the presentation and reception of Moore’s art during the Cold War. Mainly, however, it looks at his work’s influence on …

… This talk series aims to bring us one step closer to understanding the dynamics of the decade's cultural changes. The series is curated by Júliusz Huth and Kristóf Nagy in the framework of KEMKI's research project about the 1980s.  The first discussion will focus on the exhibition system for the visual arts. With our guests, we are looking for answers to the following questions: How did decentralization and marketization of cultural institutions affect art? What could and could not be …

… atypical sources of funding on their artistic production abroad emigration as export/import of cultural and social capital; the role of those who stay behind in the life and practice of the emigrant artistic production as a tool to make an impact in the sending country or to advance the process of integration in the receiving country relationship between the state and the individual based on sources produced by artists and authorities documenting legal or …

… and transferring art, such as commissioning monumental art/murals, guaranteed buying, soft power cultural politics, censorship; Communication for trading and transferring art, such as art critique or catalogue raisonné writing by dealers, advertisement or PR; Logistics and shipping of trading and transferring art Finances of trading and transferring art, such as collateralization or tax deduction; Illicit or unethical trading and transferring of art such as unprovenanced and/or …

… different professional backgrounds) will start their work under the leadership of Andrea Pócsik, cultural researcher. The idea of the "laboratory" is based on the unique feature of Artpool that participants can develop their own research questions in discussion with the founders, artist György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay, and find the right paths to understand the archive and explore the collection. They will also learn about the complementary but different methods of art history and …