… of research-based work. Following the participants will jointly create an imaginary project (exhibition, event, research) based on their research interests.
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 …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… 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 …