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The exhibition is the second show within the international research and exhibition project, The Modern Idol: Henry Moore in the Eastern Bloc, initiated by Lujza Kotočová (VVP AVU, Prague) Alina Șerban (Institute of the Present, Bucharest) and Daniel Véri (KEMKI, Budapest). The first, eponymous exhibition took place at the National Museum of Art of Romania in 2021–22. The current exhibition is accompanied by a catalog published in Czech and …

… curatorial and publishing activities up to the 2010s. In addition to being processed by the KEMKI Research Department as part of our long-term research project on Beke’s oeuvre, the archives can also serve as the starting point for further research projects. On 23 May 2024, the KEMKI Research Department will commemorate László Beke’s 80 th birthday with a professional event. On this occasion, by attempting to reconstruct Beke’s 1972 project “Cobbsletones and Gravestones”, …

… 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 …