‘open lecture’
„Célszerű lenne, ha minden pszichológus a saját elmeállapotával foglalkozna”
KEMKI Open Lectures II. In the second lecture of the KEMKI Free University, Zsolt K. Horváth (social historian, METU) will present the rhetoric of citizens’ and agents’ reports between 1948 and 1975 based on two psychological case studies. The quotation in the title comes from a woman psychologist who was herself a patient at the Hungarian National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology from 1928 …
Az 1980-as évek alternatív művészetének ellentmondásai
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 …
Pátosz és/vagy kritika? A női test politikai és művészeti instrumentalizálása
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 …
Zsidó hitközség és gyógyítás
KEMKI Open Lectures I. The Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) is launching a three-part series of free university lectures in the spring of 2022 related to the history of the building that houses the institute. The first Israelite hospital of Pest moved in 1889 to the plot enclosed by Szabolcs Street – Dózsa György Road – Nyugati Railway Station. At the beginning of the 20 …
Infrastructures of Trading and Transferring Art since 1900
… and networks and lay behind the commercial and non-commercial circulation of artworks. Keynote lectures will be held by Ana Magalhães (São Paulo) and Nathalie Heinich (Paris). The list of presenters also includes researchers from KEMKI. Although art market studies as an academic field has become increasingly popular in the last decade, there has been little research that critically examines the actors, places, rules, and structures of this system. This workshop, facilitated by Gregor …