Art during the Cold War
Project leader: Daniel Véri
This comprehensive research project examines the role of fine arts in the context of the Cold War in the postwar period between 1945 and 1975.
The projects within this programme take an interdisciplinary approach, at the intersection of art history, exhibition history, and cultural diplomacy (soft power), in order to illuminate the artistic nodes of bilateral and regional international relations and to examine the memory of the Holocaust in fine arts in the context of Cold War confrontation and East–West rivalry.
The two ongoing research projects are The Modern Idol: Henry Moore in the Eastern Bloc and Holocaust and the Arts. The former examines, in the framework of an international collaboration, the exhibitions and reception of Henry Moore, a key figure of modern art, in the Eastern Bloc (partners: Alina Șerban, Bucharest, The Institute of the Present; Lujza Kotočová, Prague, Academic Research Centre of the Academy of Fine Arts).
Past events:
The Modern Idol: Henry Moore in the Eastern Bloc
- Henry Moore and Czechoslovak Art after 1945 – exhibition, Hradec Králové, Gallery of Modern Art, 2024–25
- The Modern Idol: Henry Moore in the Eastern Bloc – exhibition, Bucharest, National Museum of Art of Romania, 2021–2022
Holocaust and the Arts
- Commissioned Memory: Hungarian Exhibitions in Auschwitz, 1960/1965 – virtual exhibition, from April 16, 2024
- Forgotten Dead: The Memory of the Roma Holocaust – roundtable discussion, Budapest, Blinken OSA Archivum, November 8, 2023
- Contested Memories: Antifascism, Jews, and the Holocaust – roundtable discussion, Budapest, Blinken OSA Archivum, October 19, 2023
- Commissioned Memory: Hungarian Exhibitions in Auschwitz, 1960/1965 – exhibition, Budapest, Galeria Centralis, September 14 – December 3, 2023
- Representations of the Holocaust in the Cold War Eastern Bloc: the Early Decades – conference, Berlin, Freie Universität, June 5–6, 2023
- Art of the Holocaust until 1989: Beyond an East/West Divide – conference, Budapest, CEU/KEMKI, June 8–10, 2022
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