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… both far away and close to us: fewer and fewer key players are active, but despite the emerging research efforts on the art of the decade, we still do not have a clear understanding of it. This series of discussions, organised in the framework of KEMKI's research project about the 1980s, aims to bring us one step closer to understanding the dynamics of the decade's cultural changes. In the second part of the series, we will focus on total art, on the collaborative and experimental …

Conference on the Legacy of István Ferenczy The Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History Archive and Documentation Centre are organizing a one-day conference on István Ferenczy entitled Art Preserved in a Mirror Image.  The invited speakers will be analyzing one of the most important set of objects within the KEMKI ADK collection: the series of daguerreotypes created by Ádám Gola of István Ferenczy's works of art before their destruction. The …

… professor of Visual Art at Université Rennes 2 (France), curator of the collection display. Her research focuses on artists’ publications, in particular those inspired by popular forms such as calendars, postcards and periodicals.   Henar Rivière, professor of Art History at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid (Spain). She specialises on international intermedia art, with a main focus of experimental writing in its various forms, including mail art and its expansion into the …

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The Látkép Art History Festival, organized by the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, will take place between September 25 and 27, 2025. KEMKI will be represented at the academic conference by the Archive and Documentation Centre and the Research Department. On Thursday, September 25, we will give three presentations within the section exploring the methodological challenges of avante-garde research between the two world wars: Sára Bárdi …