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… of Memory in Contemporary Art 15.00 – 15.30 – Coffee break 15.30 – 16.30 Keynote lecture Edit András – Procrustean Bed or Freudian Couch. Which is the better fit for writing East-Central European Art History? Friday, October 13 9.00 – 10.00 – Keynote lecture Jérôme Bazin – How to exhibit socialist realism and (post-)modernism together? 10.00 – 10. 15 – Coffee break 10.15 – 12.15 Panel 3: Social art history and Marxism in a socialist and …

… underpinning artistic practice. The project takes the form of five extended meetings of seminars, lectures, site visits and writing workshops. The seminars will be held in Prague, Budapest (Central European Research Institute for Art History - KEMKI), Berlin/Leipzig, New York and Giverny (France) between 2022 and 2024. KEMKI is the partner and venue for the Budapest seminar. The following three public events take place at KEMKI (1135 Budapest, Szabolcs street 33-35, OMRRK Campus, …

Lecture of Katja Praznik, Slovenian cultural researcher The recently published volume Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021) by Katja Praznik, a Slovenian cultural researcher at the University at Buffalo’s Arts Management Program, opens up a new perspective on the study of Eastern European art in the 1980s. Praznik argues …

KEMKI Open Lectures III. The beauty queen election was intertwined with a cigarette advertising business involving Austrian and German companies, as well as unclear legal issues, nude photos of beauty queen candidates sold to Western European erotic magazines and a likewise disrobed sculpture of Csilla Molnár.  In other words, in Hungary, the first “product” to be marketed with state backing in the …

… scholarly revision in the light of the latest perspectives and knowledge. Péter György’s plenary lecture will be followed by 15 scholarly presentations. The presentations will cover a wide range of issues that shaped Hungarian art in the 1980s from the period’s avant-garde art to the system of state cultural institutions, including queer, political and postmodern movements.