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… of art in the aftermath of 1989. This event – organized by the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) of the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest – is part of these institutions’ ongoing research into the art of the 1980s. The first Soros Art Center in the region was established in Budapest in the mid-1980s, which makes Hungary a great place to begin unraveling the local, regional and global implications of the artistic and ideological transformations in the …

… his archive of tens of thousands of negatives to the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History. The carefully prepared, information-rich collection provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore and understand the oeuvre of the first Kossuth Prize-winning photographer and to interpret the attitudes of documentary and reportage photography in Hungary after the Second World War. On 29 September 2022, in Building C of the OMRRK campus, the invited speakers …

… Foundation through its Connecting Art Histories initiative, is launching a new series of traveling research seminars to explore relationships between the U.S. and East-Central European art scenes after 1945. Led by Dr. Beáta Hock, “ Linking Art Worlds: American Art and Eastern Europe in the Cold War to the Present ” re-examines national art histories from a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective, also implicating socio-historical and political factors underpinning artistic …

… Conference  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 Research Center, …

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 …