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… the realization of one selected artistic research project, preferably with a reflection on current cultural processes and contexts.  SZM - KEMKI will provide curatorial and research consultation to the selected project and organize an exhibition to present it to the public. The total budget of the prize is 10 000 euros, of which 6000 euros are the stipend of the artist, and 4000 euros are for the realization of the project and the exhibition. The winning proposal will be …

… of the Linking Art Worlds travelling seminar in KEMKI The Leibniz-Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), with joint support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Getty Foundation through its Connecting Art Histories initiative, is launching a new series of traveling research seminars to explore relationships between the U.S. and East-Central European art scenes after 1945. Led by Dr. Beáta Hock, “ Linking Art Worlds: American Art and Eastern Europe …

Lecture of Katja Praznik, Slovenian cultural researcher The recently published volume Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021) by Katja Praznik, a Slovenian cultural researcher at the University at Buffalo’s Arts Management Program, opens up a new perspective on the study of Eastern European art in the 1980s. Praznik argues that it is through understanding …

… politics. In her lecture, Ágnes Eperjesi discusses the ways in which the transformation of mass culture, triggered by the period’s changing regulations in Hungary, became embedded in visual arts. More information here. Facebook event here. Photo: András Dér, 1987.

… that shaped Hungarian art in the 1980s from the period’s avant-garde art to the system of state cultural institutions, including queer, political and postmodern movements.