‘history’

… of thousands of negatives to the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History. The carefully prepared, information-rich collection provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore and understand the oeuvre of the first Kossuth Prize-winning photographer and to interpret the attitudes of documentary and reportage photography in Hungary after the Second World War. On 29 September 2022, in Building C of the OMRRK campus, the invited speakers of the conference entitled …

… Chapter of the Linking Art Worlds travelling seminar in KEMKI The Leibniz-Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), with joint support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Getty Foundation through its Connecting Art Histories initiative, is launching a new series of traveling research seminars to explore relationships between the U.S. and East-Central European art scenes after 1945. Led by Dr. Beáta Hock, “ Linking Art Worlds: American Art and …

… 7–9 September 2022 Venue: Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) – Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest and online (Zoom) Conference programme and abstracts are available here. Registration for offline and online participants is open until 15 July here.  The hybrid event is co-organized by the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) – Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, the …

… (CEU) Jewish Studies Program In June 2022 the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), Research Department together with the Central European University (CEU) Jewish Studies Program are organizing an international conference entitled  Art of the Holocaust until 1989: Beyond an East/West Divide.  Date: June 8–10, 2022 Location: Budapest, Hungary Organizers: Agata Pietrasik (Freie Universität Berlin), Daniel Véri (CEU/KEMKI) Downloadable programme …

… the 1980s, organized by KEMKI Research Department The Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) is organising a conference on the art of Hungary in the 1980s. The goal of the event is to initiate collective professional discourse on the art of the 1980s and to identify the most important but under-researched areas and topics related to the period’s Hungarian art as well as those that require scholarly revision in the light of the latest perspectives and knowledge. Péter …