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szekelyk@ceu.edu
With an MA in Art History and German Literature (ELTE, Budapest), Katalin was a curator at Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art between 2008 and 2013. She is a PhD candidate in the Doctoral Program in Film, Media and Contemporary Culture at Eötvös Loránd University. Her field of research includes new media practices in the Neo-Avant-Garde in Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe, and institutional critique in the CEE region from the early 1960s to the present. Since 2014, she has been a member of the curatorial team of OFF-Biennale Budapest, the largest independent, grass roots arts initiative in Hungary. Since November 2015, as Creative Program Officer at Blinken OSA, she has curated and coordinated exhibitions and other public programs.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
BOOKMARKS. Revisiting Hungarian Art of the 1960s and 1970s – With artist interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist (London: Koenig Books, 2018) (editor)
Little Warsaw: Rebels (Budapest: tranzit.hu, 2017) (author and editor with Little Warsaw)
BOOKMARKS, Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde and Post-Conceptual Art from the Late 1960s to the Present. [Exhibition catalogue] (Berlin: Distanz, 2015) (author and editor)
The Freedom of Sound – John Cage behind the Iron Curtain (Budapest: Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013) (author, editor)
Lakner Antal: Munkaállomás / WorkStation (Budapest: Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013) (editor)
Helyszíni szemle – Fejezetek a múzeum életéből [Site Inspection – The Museum on the Museum] (Budapest: Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, 2012) (author, co-editor with Hedvig Turai)
Paradise Lost – The First Roma Pavilion (München: Prestel Verlag, 2007), (co-editor with Tímea Junghaus)
Meet Your Neighbours – Contemporary Roma Art from Europe (Budapest: Open Society Institute, 2006), (co-editor with Tímea Junghaus)
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Playing among ruins: Notes to the OFF-Biennale’s project WHATIFS AND WHYNOTS: OFF-Playground presented at documenta fifteen”, In: Rita Kálmán, Lívia Páldi, Katarina Sevic (eds.): On the Same Page. Budapest: OFF-Biennale Budapest, 2022, (published for documenta fifteen, Kassel) pp. 149–154.
“The Influx of Images. Photo, Experimental Film and Video Art in the Hungarian Neo-avant-garde.” In: Edit Sasvári, Sándor Hornyik, Hedvig Turai (eds.), Art in Hungary 1956–1980. Doublespeak and Beyond (London: Thames and Hudson, 2018) pp. 331–355.
“Taken out from the Crowd – The Crowd and the Individual in the Works of the Yugoslavian and Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde.” In: Branka Štipančić (ed.): SING! Mladen Stilinović (Budapest: Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011), pp. 46–65.
“Radikális jövőkép.” [Radical prospects]. In: KONKOLY (Budapest: St.art Galéria, 2008), pp. 27–60.
ARTICLES
“Rebels – Művészeti akadémiák és a rendszerváltás Kelet- és Közép-Európában” [Rebels – Art academies and regime change in Eastern and Central Europe], ENIGMA 26: (99) 2019, pp. 56–71. (with Eszter Lázár)
“Prefigurativitás, transzlokalitás, bizalom és a Transznacionális Roma Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum” [Prefigurativity, Translocality, Trust and the Transnational Roma Museum of Contemporary Art], CAFÉ BÁBEL 82. 2020, pp. 26–36. (with Eszter Lázár)
“The Artist’s Hand. When Dematerialization Becomes Form. Notes on the Early Work of Gyula Konkoly”, Acta Historiae Artium, Tomus 56, 2015, pp. 173–186. https://doi.org/10.1556/170.2015.55.1.10
“Mert mindenki csak ül meg áll. Lábjegyzetek egy meg nem írt könyvhöz.” [‘Because everybody is just sitting and standing around’. Notes on an Unwritten Book.], exindex.hu, 11. November 2013.
“Intervenciók a Lukács Archívumban Lukács György és a kortárs képzőművészet II. [Interventions in the Lukács Archives. György Lukács and Contemporary Art II.] Művészettörténeti Értesítő [Bulletin of Art History], 2012.Vol. 61. Issue 2. pp. 207–228. https://doi.org/10.1556/muvert.61.2012.2.3
“Egy este a Lukács Archívumban. Lukács György és a kortárs képzőművészet” [An evening in the Lukács Archives. György Lukács and Contemporary Art], Művészettörténeti Értesítő [Bulletin of Art History], 2012.Vol. 61. Issue 1. pp. 1–31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/muvert.61.2012.1.1
