‘exhibition’

… 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 exhibited? What role did city and council galleries play in underground art of the period? Conversation participants: Gábor Andrási, art historian, director of the …

… The project, supported by the prize, is planned to be presented in the form of an exhibition in the autumn of 2026 – we’re already looking forward to it! Many thanks to all applicants for their work, to the international jury for their participation, and to everyone who celebrated with us at the award ceremony. 📷 Imre Kiss

… János Kass, Béla Kondor, György Konecsni, Gyula Konfár, József Péri, Endre Szász   The exhibition and book project introduces completely forgotten yet exceptional works of art 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 period from 1945 to the present: - Revisiting socialist art: state-supported institutions, exhibitions, and global networks. - Interconnectedness and mobility: artists' networks, circulation, transference, and exchange. - Social art history in a socialist context: Marxism, anti-politics and artistic labor. - Critical art history today: race, gender and decoloniality in Eastern Europe. - Curating and other forms of collective art historical engagement. If you are …

… 13.40–14.00 Sára Bárdi, KEMKI, Budapest: State Representation of Hungary in Interwar Metropolises: Exhibition Design and the Foreign Trade Office 14.00–14.20 Bálint Juhász, Hansági Museum, Hungary: Visual Language as a Socio-Political Tool. The Irreprehensible and Anti-Cosmopolitan Crusade of Štefan Prohászka (1928–1938) 14.20–14.40 Bennett Tucker, Israel Institute of Technology: Reuven Rubin and the Interrelations of Artist Sponsorships and Institutional Networks in New York City, …