István Hollós's book My Farewell to the Yellow House (1927) is being published in English for the first time. Hollós's writing is an early example of a democratic approach to psychiatry, and his work is linked at several points to the MTA Psychiatric Art Collection in the care of the HUN-REN BTK.
Gábor György Papp, research fellow of the Institute of Art History will give a lecture titled József Hubert (1846-1916), Architekt der Oesterreichisch-Ungarischen Bank on Thursday, November 7, at a conference organized by the University of Innsbruck's Archiv für Bau.Kunst.Geschichte. This conference marks the first public event of a three-year research project launched this year. The project focuses on Die Bautätigkeit der Oesterreichisch-Ungarischen Bank und der Oesterreichischen Nationalbank 1878–1938 im europäischen Kontext.
A book presentation of the title "Schools and museums of modern design in Transylvania around 1900," by Miklós Székely, will take place on October 16, 2024, at the Polytechnic University of Turin.
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.
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."
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"
Ferenczi 150th Anniversary International Conference organized by the Sándor Ferenczy Society in collaboration with the Hungarian Psychoanalitical Society and the Free Association Lisbon. Monika Perenyei, senior research fellow of the Institute of Art History participates to the event with two lectures in the section entitled: Art, Art Brut and Film.
Outsider Art - Trauma and transformation. International conference organized by the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest. Judit Faludy, research fellow of the Institute of Art History will present her paper: "Our visible and invisible borders of a borderless world."