Hidden Worlds Expanding - Eastern European Outsider Art | One exhibition in three venues

The MTA Psychiatric Art Collection will be closed from July 30 to August 25, 2024.

The collection is participating with 39 works in the Estonian exhibition "Hidden Worlds Expanding, Eastern European Outsider Art," which is on view until September 29.

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Monika Perenyei's conference presentation in the University of Essex

The 43rd ESHHS conference will be held from 25 to 28 June 2024 at the University of Essex. Monika Perenyei, senior research fellow of the Institute of Art History, and Professor Raluca Soreanu, psychoanalyst and head of the FreePsy Project at the University of Essex, will present their paper: "The Dream Album. The Album of Angyalföld Museum and the Politics of Presentation of the Asylum in Interwar Budapest."

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Miklós Székely: Schools and museums of modern design in Transylvania around 1900

The time limits of the volume are marked by a fundamentally short historical period, the two decades of the half-century history of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, when the economic catch-up of Transylvania and the clarification of the presence of Hungarian culture were intertwined in many cases. The memories of industrial vocational education in Transylvania bear witness to the spread of modern technologies and educational methodology and the thin border between the artisan’s and the designer's activities.

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Enchanted Socialist Modernity? - Online Conference organized by the University of Warsaw

Enchanted Socialist Modernity? Art of Central and Eastern Europe in the Face of Esoterism and Unconventional Spiritualities 1945-1989 - Online Conference organized by the University of Warsaw in 27th-28th June, 2023. Erzsébet Tatai, senior research fellow of the Institute of Art History will present her paper: "Occult Hungary. Spiritual in Art in Hungary between 1945–1989"

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