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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 talk series aims to bring us one step closer to understanding the dynamics of the decade's cultural changes. The series is curated by Júliusz Huth and Kristóf Nagy in the framework of KEMKI's research project about the 1980s.  The first discussion will focus on the exhibition system for the …

… infrastructure, housing shortages and emerging platforms of the public sphere. We invite researchers who explore this interaction between artistic production, emigration and the urban space from aspects including but not limited to: the impact of artists’ access to typical or atypical sources of funding on their artistic production abroad emigration as export/import of cultural and social capital; the role of those who stay behind in the life and practice of the emigrant …

… decision, and thus became the main pillar of the Beke's life work processing carried out by the Research Department of KEMKI under the umbrella of the Resonances project. Once arranged and processed, the archive will be accessible to external researchers. In service of László Beke’s oeuvre and the visibility of his archive, a collection of texts in English is in the process of being published by an international company, an international conference is in the works for 2025, and, in the …

… the latest issue of Sešit/Notebook for Art, Theory and Related Zones, the periodical of AVU Research Centre in Prague dedicated to the Resonances project just came out! It comprises articles by Katalin Cseh-Varga, Tomasz Załuski, Gabriela Świtek, Dagmar Svatošová, and Cristian Nae, which are based on the papers presented at the Resonances conferences as well as the editorial by Pavlína Morganová, Marianna Placáková, and Martin Škabraha, which gives an overview of the whole project, …

… Portraits 1985-1991, which the artist gifted to the Collection, will soon be available for research. These photos by the Rudolf Balogh Prize winning photographer – known mainly for his studies of the human body in motion facilitated by long exposures and special flash techniques – still reflect a documentarist aesthetic, as they portray his artist friends who were (also) active on the 1980s art scene. In addition to the 66 rolls, György Tóth also included 62 of his signed digital …