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… 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 nationalism—multiculturalism, internationalism, or something else entirely? These questions are particularly pressing when viewed from the perspective of Eastern Europe, a …

… and Criticism], edited by Júliusz Huth and Kristóf Nagy and published by the Central European Research Institute for  Art History (KEMKI), offers a comprehensive exploration of this era. Featuring over fifty essays, reflections and reviews originally published during the 1980s, alongside a new, comprehensive study on the art criticism of the decade, the volume delves into the art discourses of the era. The volume examines key artistic debates on postmodernism, new painting, socialism, and …

The latest volume of KEMKI publications, which is edited by Balázs Zoltán Tóth, is related to research on the history of photography conducted by KEMKI ADK. It contains extended and edited texts from the presentations given at the conference entitled Stratification of an Archive: Possible Approaches to the Oeuvre of Péter Korniss. The diversely themed essays in the volume provide new interpretations of attitudes that prevailed in Hungarian documentary photography and …

Open call Endre Tót and the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) established the TÓTalJOY prize for contemporary artists in 2021. The prize derives its name from Endre Tót’s conceptual program centred on the notion of joy, which was launched in the 1970s. His early joy pieces and the actions of the TÓTalJOY series are considered among the most important works representing the narrative of Eastern European conceptual …

… of KEMKI. This richly illustrated volume of essays—published in connection to KEMKI ADK’s research on cold war modernisms, and edited by Katalin Bakos and Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári—explores the oeuvre of György Konecsni from new perspectives. At the book launch event, Tünde Topor will moderate a conversation between Katalin Bakos, Sára Bárdi, Anikó Katona and Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári. György Konecsni’s art is characterized by a diversity of styles and forms. He is known by many as a …