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 backing …
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, 2022 …
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 …
… website. The two-day conference convened by Zsuzsa László and Emese Kürti (Central European Research Institute for Art History - Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest) will investigate the concept of cultural transfer and its relevance to the transnational art histories of Central-East Europe in the 1970s. The program is composed of the following five sections: Theories of Translation and Transfer; Interpersonal Friendships and Dialogues; Hubs of Transfer; Agents, Vectors, Mediators; …
KEMKI Open Lectures I. The Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) is launching a three-part series of free university lectures in the spring of 2022 related to the history of the building that houses the institute. The first Israelite hospital of Pest moved in 1889 to the plot enclosed by Szabolcs Street – Dózsa György Road – Nyugati Railway Station. At the beginning of the 20 th century, the complex was annexed …