I. PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Dr. Katalin Keserü
Birthplace: Pécs, Hungary
Date of birth: 4 October , 1946
Permanent address and tel.: Hungary 1122 Budapest, Magyar Jakobinusok tere 2-3., tel:36-1-156-7154
email: kkeseru@c3.hu keseru@irisart.elte.hu
II. EDUCATION
Ph.D.: Art history, University Eötvös Lóránd, Budapest, 1975
Thesis topic: Aladár Körösfõi-Kriesch, Hungarian Secessionist artists (the painter and the applied artist)
Minors: History of philosophy, Hungarian literature, Summa cum laude
Ma.: Art history, Hungarian literature and linguistic, Latin, University Eötvös Lóránd, Budapest, 1972
Thesis topic: a critical history of the work of József Rippl-Rónai
III. TEACHING AND RESEARCHES
Assistant at the Art History Dept. of University Eötvös Lóránd, 1976-1980
Adjunct at the Art History Dept. of University Eötvös Lóránd, 1981-present: lectures about the history of the 19-20th centuries art, applied arts and architecture
Lectures at the Stockholm university, 1991
Visiting professor at the University of Jyväskylä, 1992
Lectures at the Helsinki University,1992
Director of the Kunsthalle Budapest, 1992-1995
Lectures at the Catholic University Pazmaneum, 1995/96
Lectures at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, 1996
Visiting professor at the Carleton University, Ottawa, 1996. February - March
Research collaborator in the special projects of the Art History Dept. of Eötvös Lóránd University:
Leader of the project "Art of the 80ies in Hungary", 1991-94
In the 80ies: History of art theories in Hungary, Avantgardism and traditions, National Art
Research collaborator in the projects of the Institute of Art History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 196-90, for the monographs of Hungarian art especially, in the 19th century, at the turn of the century, after the 2nd World War;
In the projects of the Hungarian National Gallery, 1987-1989, for exhibitions and catalogue of the turn of the century Hungarian art in Helsinki and London, about the Finnish-Hungarian and British-Hungarian artistic relations.
IV. EDITOR OF BOOKS OF STUDIES at the Eötvös Lóránd University:
A modern poszt-jai (The Positions of the Post-Modernism), 1994
Sub minervae nations praesidio, 1990
At the Hungarian Institute of Theatre:
A színházi látványról (About the Visuality in the Theatre), 1979 (unpublished)
At the Kunsthalle Budapest:
A Mûcsarnok, The Budapest Kunsthalle,
"Zeno at the Edge of the Known World" by Joseph Kosuth, 1993
V. CONGRESSES, CONFERENCES (INTERNATIONAL) Organising:
Budapest Spring Festival - Cross-roads in Central-European Contemporary Art and criticism (regional - interregional), 1996
At the Ernst Museum, Budapest:
ICOM, ICEE Annual Meeting, 1994;
About Pop Art, 1993
At the University Eötvös Lóránd:
Csontváry - In memoriam Lajos Németh, 1992
Papers:
International Symposium of curators, Graz, 1996
AICA annual conferences (Rennes, 1996, Stockholm, 1994, Santa Monica, 1991)
Congress of the association of Hungarian Studies (Rome, 1996, Szeged, 1991, Toronto, 1989)
Regional (Central-Eastern European) conferences of art critics (Yugoslavia, Belarus, 1995)
Association of Art historians (UK) annual congress (London, 1993, Dublin, 1990, Edinburgh, 1984)
VI.-VII. Convegni Italo-Ungherese sui rapporti storici e culturali tra Italia e ungheria (Budapest, 1986, 1993)
Europa genti e regioni (Venice, 1986)
CIHA congress (Vienna, 1983)
Romanticism. Conference of the Serbian and Hungarian Academies of Sciences (Budapest, 1982)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Institute, Resident associate program, 1993
VI. EXHIBITONS (SELECTION)
1995
national curator at the Africa’s Biennial (Johannesburg)
at the First International Biennial of Water Colour (Slovene)
chief curator of "Europe: Creation and re-creation", Budapest Kunsthalle (international, with catalogue)
1994
national curator at the New Delhi Triennial
curator of Art of the 80ies in Hungary, Ernst museum (with catalogue)
1993-94
organisation of two regional exhibitions of Central-Eastern-European artists (Danube, Naturally) with workshops and catalogues
1993
national commissioner at the Venice Biennial (exhibition of Joseph Kosuth and Victor Lois) with catalogues
Variations on Pop Art (chapters in the history of Hungarian art between 1950-1990), Ernst Museum, Budapest, Gallery Kubus, Hanover; with catalogue Hungarica, Roma, Palazzo Braschi
1992
The Nature of Art, Fészek Gallery
1989
Neo-Dadaism in Hungarian Art, Budapest, Eötvös Lóránd University
1988
Primary Forms I-II., Budapest, Fészek Gallery, with catalogue
Aladár Körösfõi-Kriesch (1963-1920), Gödöllõ, House of Culture
1987
Magic Scene in Art, Budapest City Gallery, Szombathely City Gallery, with catalogue
1982
Realisms, Budapest, Fészek Gallery, with catalogue
1980
Tendencies I., Budapest, Óbuda Gallery, on behalf of the Association of the Hungarian Artists, with catalogue
The Artists’ Colony of Gödöllõ, City Museum of Gödöllõ (permanent), with catalogue
1979
Scores. gallery of Józsefváros, Budapest
1978
Scores. Bercsényi Club, Budapest Technical University
Art of streets and squares, Association of Hungarian Artists
VII. GRANTS AND AWARDS
Minister of Culture and Education, 1992, Ferenczy-prize
1990, Munkácsy-prize
Society of Hungarian Archeologists and Art Historians, 1989, Pasteiner-medal
General Directorate of Publishing, Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education, 1988, 1983 for books
Research grants
Goethe Institute, 1994, Kunsthalles in Germany
Hungarian Grant Council, 1985, Rome, 1991, India
British Academy, 194, Great Britain
Comité d’Histoire de l’Art, participation in the 1973 and 1978 congresses (Granada, Bologna)
VIII. PROFFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS National
member of the Hungarian Art Academy (1995-)
Committee of Art History (1990-93) and
Committee of Cultural History (1986-92) at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Hungarian Society for Architectural Studies (1995-)
Nat. Association of Hungarian Artists
Society of Hungarian Archeologists and Art Historians
association of the Hungarian Literary Historians
International
member of the association of Art Historians (UK)
Association International of the Art Critics (board member 1996-)
International Association for the History of Religions
International Association of Hungarian Studies
IX. PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
Listen to Art!
In: Strategies for Survival - Now! Swedish Art critics Association Press, Lund, 1995, pp. 87-92.
Vernacularism and its Special Characteristics in Hungarian Art
In: Art and the National Dream. Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1995, pp. 127-141.
A kultusz közös helye. Kazinczy magyarországi kultusza (the Cult in Between. the Cult of Kazinczy, the Poet in Hungary).
In: Tények és legendák, tárgyak és ereklyék. A Petõfi Irodalmi Múzeum könyvei 1. Budapest, 1994, pp. 35-46.
About the Region.
In: Naturally, Budapest, Ernst Museum, 1994
Várábrázolások. Táj és történelem a historizmus festészetében Magyarországon (Representations of Castles. Landscape and history in the Painting of Hungarian Historicism).
In: a historizmus mûvészete Magyarországon. Budapest, 1993. MTA Mûvészettörténeti Kutató Intézet, pp. 223-241.
Variations on Pop Art. Budapest, 1993, Ernst Museum
Finn-kép a magyar mûvészeti életben a századelõn (The Image of the Finnish Culture in Hungary at the Beginning of the 20th Century).
In: Hungarologische Beiträge. Universitat Jyväskylä, 1993
A Particular Introduction to Joseph Kosuth’s Work.
In: Joseph Kosuth: "Zeno At the Edge of the Known World". Venice Biennial, Pavilion of Hungary, 1993
Indian Influence on Hungarian Architecture.
In: Hungarian Scholars on India and Indiology. Hungarian Information and Cultural Center, 1992 New Delhi
Historical Iconography of Hungarian Avant-garde.
In: Acta Historiae Atrium 1990-1992, pp. 77-84.
Multicultural World as cultural Paradigm
In: Beyond Walls and Wars - Art, Politics and Multiculturalism. New York 1992, Midmarch Art Press
Etnográfia és mûvészet - finnek és magyarok (Ethnography and Art - Finns and Hungarian)
In: Népi kultúra és nemzettudat. Budapest, 1991
András Wahorn: Pictures of Desires and passions. Budapest, 1991, Dovin-Markó-Vasilescu
Art Contacts Between Great Britain and Hungary at the Turn of the Century.
In: Hungarian Studies 2. 1990, Hungarian Academic Press
"Nulla aero" e "figura constante". Dante nell’arte figuartiva della secessione u ungherese.
In: venezia, Italia e Ungheria tra decadentismo e avanguardia. Budapest, 1990. Hungarian Academic Press
Nemzeti gondolat a 19. század magyar építészetében - Az egyetemestõl a regionális stílusig (National idea in the 19th century Hungarian architecture).
In: Sub Minervae nationis praesidio. Budapest, 1989
About Victor Lois Székesfehérvár, King Stephan Museum, 1989
Unkarilaisten ja Suomalaisten Kultuurisuhteista vuosisadanvaihtessa
In: Sielu ja muoto.
Taideteollisnusmuseon julkaisu No. 28 Helsinki, 1988
the workshop of Gödöllõ: transformations of a Morriasisian Theme.
In: journal of Design History (London) Vol. 1. No. 1. 1988
Avantgárdizmus és a primitív/népi mûvészet tradíciója (Avantgardim and the Tradition of primitifpaesant art).
In: Ars Hungarica 1988/1.
Gödöllõi mûvésztelep (Gödöllõ Artists’ Colony). Budapest, Corvina Press, 1987
Decorative Arts as Sources of architectural Symbolism.
In: the Journal of the Decorative Arts Society (UK) no. 11. 1987
Kunst und Volkskunst.
In: Architecture (Switzerland) no. 3. 1987
Képlátás, képértelmezés a 19. század közepén Magyarországon (Interpretation of Pointing in the middle of the 19th century)
In: Ars Hungarica No 1. 1985
Az értelmiség a képzõmûvészet szemében 1850-1867 (The Intelligentia in the Mirror of Hungarian Art 1850-1867).
In: Irodalomtörténeti és mûvelõdéstörténeti tanulmányok, Budapest, 1995
Music and spectacle in the New hungarian Art.
In: Kunst, Musik, Schauspiel. Akten des XXV. Internationaler Kongress für Kunstgeschichte 2. Wien, 1984
József Rrippl-Rónai. Berlin, Henschelverlag, 1983
A Zsonay gyár szecessziós korszaka (The Secessionist Period of the Zsolnay Ceramic Factory).
In: Magyar mûvészet 1890-1919 I., Budapest, Hungarian Academic Press, 1981
Historical Theme in hungarian Symbolism.
In: Acta historie Artium 1978/1-4. etc.
