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… avantgarde art experiments. Now, in 2023, it serves as a venue for several exhibitions and events, organised within the framework of the VEB2023 EKF project entitled Unexpected Culture, in commemoration of the most successful year of its operation in 1973, as well as the fiftieth anniversary of its permanent shutdown by the authorities. As part of the program, visual artist Hajnal Németh will create a performative installation in the former Chapel Studio for a period of eight days …

… the reasons for their fiasco. The conference aims to investigate the role that significant global events, such as the Nuremberg trials, the Auschwitz trials, the Eichmann trial, and the Six-Day War had on shaping the memory of the Holocaust in the domain of fine arts and also to explore the impact of similar, local events. Another important point of focus is the role of national and transnational organisations, state authorities and unions of former prisoners, especially in the case of …

… until 1989: Beyond an East/West Divide”. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2510457102443655/ The recordings of last year’s conference are available upon registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PiFILfTvX5k7MJsxelnG3Vo3ccDXuIgM8N2sJoYxtDU/ https://kemki.hu/en/events/details/19-Art_of_the_Holocaust_Until_1989_Beyond_an_East_West_Divide

Exhibition The chamber exhibition commemorating the events of the Chapel Studio in Balatonboglar (1970-1973) 50 years ago, introduces the ambiguous and fundamental otherness of the key participants. Documents, images and texts, sounds and videos, presented as installations, inform from the past to the present with general and most personal perspectives on artistic and non-artistic existential issues. The film Kultúr/Galántai/Domb …

The TÓTalJOY Prize was established by the Museum of Fine Art’s Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), with the generous support of Endre Tót. In 2021, a project by Tamás Kaszás was selected as the winning entry by the six-member Hungarian and international jury. Applications that reflected on changing cultural contexts and contemporary dilemmas in relation to the …