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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 …

… 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.

… 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 …

… a space for presenting 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 …