‘history’

… project consists of four conferences and is realized in partnership with the Department of Art History at Comenius University in Bratislava, the Research Institute of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and the Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Central European Art in Poznań. The Prague chapter of the series examines how the discipline called "Exhibition Histories" can be applied to the field of Central East European art histories. Speakers: Milena Bartlová, Juliane …

… aftermath of 1989. This event – organized by the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) of the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest – is part of these institutions’ ongoing research into the art of the 1980s. The first Soros Art Center in the region was established in Budapest in the mid-1980s, which makes Hungary a great place to begin unraveling the local, regional and global implications of the artistic and ideological transformations in the last decades of the 20th …

… 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 …