The exhibition presents the research-based art project of Rita Süveges, winner of the 2023 TÓTalJOY Prize. Rita Süveges artist, winner of the 2023 TÓTalJOY Prize, has long been investigating the cultural, technological, and ethical aspects of the ecological crisis. In her exhibition she explores the lessons of previous endeavours to modify the weather and climate. Throughout history, humans …
The exhibition is the second show within the international research and exhibition project, The Modern Idol: Henry Moore in the Eastern Bloc, initiated by Lujza Kotočová (VVP AVU, Prague) Alina Șerban (Institute of the Present, Bucharest) and Daniel Véri (KEMKI, Budapest). The first, eponymous exhibition took place at the National Museum of Art of Romania in 2021–22. The current exhibition is …
… 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 …
… of research-based work. Following the participants will jointly create an imaginary project (exhibition, event, research) based on their research interests.
… Introduction 10.00 – 12.00 Panel 1: Revisiting socialist art: state-supported institutions, exhibitions, and cultural diplomacy Tomasz Zaluski – Introduction : In Search of New Agendas. Potential Histories of Art & Modernization Under Socialism Maja and Reuben Fowkes – Thirty Victorious Years: an exhibition of engaged realist art from ten socialist states that didn’t shake the world Irina Cărăbaș – Mexican Art and Cultural Diplomacy in Romania Ljiljana Kolešnik …