Central European Research
Institute for Art History

The Art of Hungary in the 1980s

Research Department

The aim of the Research Department’s 1980s research is a comprehensive study of the decade’s Hungarian visual arts, taking into account the correlations of cultural and economic policy as well as the international contexts and interconnections. The research focuses on studying the transformation of the institutional system of visual arts, the main artistic controversies and critical discourses of the decade, the emergence of new trends in painting and postmodern theories, the intermixing of  experimental and underground trends and different artistic disciplines, as well as the regional and international relations of Hungarian art.

Taking place in 2022, basic research will include a conference titled The Flowers of Transition – The Art of Hungary in the 1980s as well as interviews with key figures of the decade and an in-depth study of the art criticism of the 1980s. The latter project aims to prepare a conclusive anthology of art criticism in the period.

Archive events:

2022. May 17.

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