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… of Fine Arts. The  richly illustrated 336-page volume contains expanded versions of the lectures given at the 2023 conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the distinguished art collector and critic. Editors: Orsolya Radványi, György Szücs, Károly Tóth Authors: Eszter Békefi, Barbara Büki, Judit Galácz, Katalin Keserü, Anna Kopócsy, Péter Molnos, István Németh, Réka Pálinkás, Orsolya Radványi, Emese Révész, György Szücs, Ferenc Tóth, Károly Tóth, Júlia …

The recordings of the international conference, held in 2024 in connection with the „Organising the Spectacle” Research on the Avant-garde organized by the Research Department, are now available on the conference website and on the KEMKI Youtube channel . Feel free to explore!

A lecture by Joseph Grim Feinberg (Czech Academy of Sciences; Senior Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, CEU) within the framework of KEMKI’s research project on the art of the 1980s. National frameworks and containers are often too narrow to fully grasp the complexities of social, historical, and artistic development. What, then, should replace methodological …

… for its existence. Based on the artworks in the exhibition and its two-part structure, this lecture seeks to shed light on the ambiguities of this new cold order, which, in the interwar years, particularly conditioned life in German metropolises. As Robert Musil summed up in 1930 in his great novel Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man Without Qualities), “One has gained reality and lost dreams.”   Angela Lampe began her career at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany after a PhD in …

… Exhibition I. 17.00–17.30  Discussion Coffee break 17.30–18.00 18.00–19.00 Keynote lecture Éva Forgács, Adjunct Professor, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Professor emerita, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest: Challenging National Art Histories Friday, 11 October Keynote 10:00–11:00   Angela Lampe,  Senior curator, Modern Art Collections, MNAM–Centre Pompidou: A review of the exhibition “Germany/1920s/New Objectivity/August …