… For the first time in East-Central Europe, the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit) convenes its 2022 (10th) international conference in Budapest, Hungary, to focus on the following theme: Periodicals beyond Hierarchies: Challenging Geopolitical and Social “Centres” and “Peripheries” through the Press. Date: 7–9 September 2022 Venue: Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) – Artpool Art …
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 that it is through understanding creative art …
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 …
Conference organized by KEMKI Research Department and Central European University (CEU) Jewish Studies Program In June 2022 the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), Research Department together with the Central European University (CEU) Jewish Studies Program are organizing an international conference entitled Art of the Holocaust until 1989: Beyond an East/West Divide. Date: June 8–10, …
Conference about the art of Hungary in the 1980s, organized by KEMKI Research Department The Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) is organising a conference on the art of Hungary in the 1980s. The goal of the event is to initiate collective professional discourse on the art of the 1980s and to identify the most important but under-researched areas and topics related to the period’s Hungarian art as well as those that require scholarly …