February-June
Research in Hungary
14.01-18.02. 2022
Space Marks
Artists: Imre Bak, Krystian Burda, Ferenc Ficzek, Károly Hopp-Halász, Károly Kismányoky, Sándor Pinczehelyi, Kálmán Szijártó
Exhibition in acb Attachment in Budapest
The research exhibition presented at acb Attachment – as the first stage of a research project supported by the Visegrad Fund – through an interview video created for the show, seeks to nuance the relationship between the Hungarian symposium movement (which began in 1968 and reached its heyday in the 1970s) and the art activities that took place at the Bonyhád Enamel Factory. At the same time, the exhibition is also connected to the history of how these activities at the Bonyhád Factory (relating not only to enamel art) appeared on the avantgarde platforms of the era, thereby outlining the intersection of these two domains. The works on display are selected from the material – conceived mainly in the spirit of geometric abstraction – that members of the former Pécs Workshop submitted in response to a call for works announced in 1971 by art historian László Beke under the title The Artwork = the Documentation of the Idea. The exhibition will be complemented by the screening of an experimental student film shot in 1961 in the Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw by a recently discovered artist of Central European modernism: designer and visual artist Krystian Burda (1935-2015). The film comprised part of Burda’s degree work involving the design of a Chopin monument, which was to employ solutions in terms of form and memory politics that were unusual for the period. The artist’s plan was to erect the monument along the road leading to the Polish composer’s house of birth. Burda’s oeuvre is linked in multiple ways to ideas formulated by Hungarian artists about public space, landscape interventions, process art, neo-constructivism, as well as works both realised and unrealised, in a space defined by the social and aesthetic intentions of the socialist industry.
We owe our thanks to Imre Bak, Sándor Pinczehelyi, László Százados, Fundacja Polskiej Sztuki Nowoczesnej, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej BWA Katowice, Małgorzata Kaźmierczak, Iwona Demko, Karina Dzieweczyńska (Centrum Sztuki Galeria EL, Elbląg) and Bernadeta Stano for their help.
March-June 2022
Research in Czech Republic
01.03-04.04.2022
DEMONSTRATION FOR ALL SENSES
Reflection of social Climate in Czech conceptual Photography.
Exhibition in Kupe Gallery in Opava
Revolt was a basic motif of artistic expression in the 1960s and today it is generally referred to as Action Art. In their protests against the commercialization of art, artists left galleries and performed various actions in the streets, on alternative premises and in the countryside. In most cases, photo documentation is all that remains of such transient actions. Olomouc Museum of Art owns the important collection of Performance Art in the Czech Republic. The exhibition presents selected works from this collection. The exhibition is part of the project A Bridge in Time - The Contemporary Picture of The Past.
September-October 2022
Research in Slovakia
08.09.-29.10. 2022
Permanent Alternatives
Exhibition in Ernest Zmeták Art Gallery in Nové Zámky
The research and the exhibition in Slovakia will be focused on the current view of the individual stages with an emphasis on key events, personalities, localities, main and marginal topics. At the same time, we will analyse connections of Czech-Slovak, Slovak-Hungarian art, and their responses in Slovak art, which have not yet been researched. The result will be a new open reading of history in broader contexts. Studies in the publication: Permanent Alternatives (working title) follow the time-thematic axis.
October 2022
Art Geography of Central Europe: landmarks, networks, sources.
Final conference in Gdansk
During the conference in Gdansk the results of the research project will be presented and discussed. Speakers from all Visegrad countries will be invited. It will be the last meeting of the research group. The conference will make public the results of the research projects in each of the Visegrad countries. This conference is intended to summarise the research conducted within the project. The conference will have a working character. In the course of its duration, the final results of the project and the final publication will be developed, the aim of which is to create a draft of a curriculum for universities and art academies on a topic Neo-avantgarde art in Central Europe.