A selection of conferences, guest lectures, exhibition openings and further professional activity
“COVID-19 and aesthetics. The impact of the pandemic on the infrastructure of arts,” Lecture at the Online Conference: Planetary Health and Humanities, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2020
“Mirroring ruins. Aesthetics experience and engaging with the past,” Invited talk at the 40th Anniversary Conference of the
Panayotis and Effie Michelis Foundation, Athens, Greece, 2020
“The present and future past of ruins,” Guest lecture at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture,
Espoo, Finland, 2019
“Possible worlds of contemporary aesthetics. The search of aesthetics,” Paper presentation at the 21st International Congress of Aesthetics, Belgrade, Serbia, 2019
“Empty pages and full stops. On the aesthetic relation between books and art,” Paper presentation at the 21st International Congress of Aesthetics, Belgrade, Serbia, 2019
“Beauty, environment and the changes in the man-made sublime,” Paper presentation at the Annual conference of The Nordic Society of Aesthetics, Espoo, Finland, 2019
“The Human Image seen through the history of exhibiting,” Paper presentation at the 5th World Humanities Forum, Busan, South Korea, 2018
“Eulogy to the fragment. Ruination and artworks,” Paper presentation at the conference of the International Association for Aesthetics, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, 2018
“Sensing the city. Art, aesthetics and urban experience throughout the ages,” Master class at “Challenges and Duties of Humanities: Asian and Global Commitments” – Global Humanities Festival, organised by UNESCO, the International Council for the Philosophy and Human Sciences, the Asian New Humanities Net and Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, 2018
“Ruins as context and scenery. Temporal interference as source of aesthetic experience,” Paper presentation at the Annual conference of The Nordic Society of Aesthetics, University of Bergen, Norway, 2017
"History of Art from its beginnings to the 19th century", Guest lectures at ARTEXPERTS+, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Spring session 2017
“Ruins in East-West perspective. Comparative aesthetics and heritage management,” Paper presentation at the conference Philosophy in the desert. Comparative philosophy at the crossroads. American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2017
Artist talk with Tor Seidel, The Empty Quarter Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2017
"History of Art from Impressionism till the Post-War years. The beginnings and patterns of Modernism", Guest lectures at ARTEXPERTS+, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Fall session 2016
“Identity in Ruins. Aesthetics of decay, archaeology and cultural policy,” Guest lecture at the Philosophy Research Seminar Series, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, 2016
“Just a Look,” Artist talk with Tor Seidel on the occasion of his exhibition, XVA Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2016
“The aesthetics of Nordic landscapes,” Guest lecture at the Science and Philosophy Reading Circle, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2016
"The painter in the landscape. Aesthetic considerations on a pictorial sub-genre" – Paper presentation at the 20th International Congress of Aesthetics, Seoul National University, Korea, 2016
“Hub in the making. Contemporary art in the United Arab Emirates,” Guest lecture at the Gulf Enterprises Studies MA-programme of the University Ca’Foscari, Venice, Italy, 2016
“Invisible walls and concrete separations. Memory and cultural identity in the Middle East and Central Asia” – Invited talk at the “L’Orientale” University of Naples, Italy, 2016
"History of Art from Impressionism till the Post-War years. The beginnings and patterns of Modernism", Guest lectures at ARTEXPERTS+, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Spring session 2016
"Chapters from the history of art collecting" – Public talk at World Art Dubai art fair, United Arab Emirates, 2016
"History of Art from its beginnings to the 19th century" , Guest lectures at ARTEXPERTS+, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Spring session 2016
Featured Presentation: "Art from Walls. Aesthetic re-elaborations in the MENASA region and Central Asia"
IAFOR (International Academic Forum) International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2016
"Imagining Ruins. Considerations on the aesthetics of heritage" – Lecture in the Interdisciplinary Conference on "Imagination", AURAK – American University of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, 2016
Round table discussion on contemporary art in the Middle East at Art Market Budapest – International contemporary art fair, Budapest, Hungary, 2015
Workshop initiated by Zoltán Somhegyi at Akbank Sanat Beyoglu, Istanbul, 2015, with the participation of Jale Erzen (Ankara), Jacob Lund (Aarhus), Ipek Duben (Istanbul), Bedri Baykam (Istanbul) and Zoltán Somhegyi (Sharjah)
| akbank_poster_2015.pdf |
"Learning from Detroit?" Aesthetics around decayed shopping malls – Lecture in the conference of the International Association for Aesthetics, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 2015
Public talk: "Focus on East – The shift and rise of art hubs" at World Art Dubai art fair, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2015
Public talk on Contemporary art in Central Asia at World Art Dubai art fair, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2015
Reviewer for folioPORT 2015 online portfolio review platform.
Presentation on contemporary photography in the Middle East and Artist talk, on the occasion of the exhibition "Out of Time. Reflexions and memory of the Middle East by Siniša Vlajković" – curated at CUBO Centro Unipol di Bologna, Italy, 2014
“Multi-ethnicity as source of inspiration” – Lecture in the conference "Ottoman Pasts, Present Cities: Cosmopolitanism and Transcultural Memories", AHRC Research Network, Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom, 2014
| ottoman_cosmopolitanism_programme.pdf |
"The ways of collecting II. – Places and concepts of art collecting" – Public lecture at Akbank Sanat Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014
| akbank_zoltan_somhegyi_2014_june.pdf |
”Shortcuts to nostalgia? On the attempts of aestheticisation of the past” – Lecture in the Annual conference of the Nordic Society of Aesthetics, Haaga-Helia University, Helsinki, Finland, 2014
"The ways of collecting I. – The history of art collecting" – Public lecture at Akbank Sanat Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014
| akbank_zoltan_somhegyi_2014_may.pdf |
"Depicted (as) ruins. Archaeology and painting in the 18th and 19th centuries" – Public lecture at the Institute Français d'Izmir, organized by the Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey, 2014
"Contemporary art and social responsibility" – Guest lecture at the Department of Visual Communication Desgin of Ege University, Izmir, 2014
| ege_university_poster_somhegyi.pdf |
"Possibilities and challenges in public art" – Presentation at the meeting of the Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Programme, Izmir, Turkey, 2014
“The aesthetic status of contemporary ruins” – Guest lecture at Seville University, Spain, 2014
“Scientific nostalgia? Archaeology, aesthetics and politics” – Guest lecture at Seville University, Spain, 2014
"Remembrance or anticipation? From the ruins to the museums – and back" – Invited talk at the University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2014
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 9th ICDHS – International Committee Design History and Design Studies conference, 8-11 July 2014, Aveiro, Portugal
| icdhs_certificados_somhegyi.pdf |
Member of the Selection Jury of the interdisciplinary art exhibition organized by Kedi Sanat Merkezi, Izmir, Turkey, 2014
Artist talk at the exhibition of Aoife Collins, Izmir, Turkey, 2014
Vernissage of the exhibition of Aoife Collins, Izmir, Turkey, 2014
Round table on public art, Maquis Projects, Izmir, Turkey, 2013
| maquis_public_art_invite.pdf |
“Approaching the landscape” – Invited talk at Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013
Lecture on "contemporary ruins" at the II. Sanart congress of the Turkish Association of Aesthetics, Mersin, Turkey, 2013
Workshop initiated by Zoltan Somhegyi at Akbank Sanat Beyoglu, Istanbul, 2013, with the participation of Ipek Akpinar (Istanbul), Emin Mahir Balcioglu (Doha), Michael Diers (Berlin), Jale Erzen (Ankara) and Zoltan Somhegyi (Izmir)
| akbank_poster.pdf |
Lecture on the aesthetics of ruins at the 19th International Congress of Aesthetics, Krakow, Poland, 2013
Lecture on CEE art and art market at the workshop of Artmark.ro, Bucharest, Romania, 2013
Vernissage of the exhibition: Creative transgressions, Kosice, Slovakia, 2013
Vernissage of the exhibition of Róbert Várady, Budapest, Hungary, 2013
Panel discussion: "Dreams in Art", Budapest, Hungary, 2013
Round table on contemporary art and art market, Contemporary Istanbul, Turkey, 2012
Round table discussion on contemporary photography, Art Market Budapest, Hungary, 2012
Round table discussion on contemporary Turkish art, Art Market Budapest, Hungary, 2012
Interview in Radio Q, Budapest, Hungary, 2012
Panel discussion on Borbála Kováts, Budapest, Hungary, 2012
Vernissage of the exhibition of the Károly Szalóky-collection, Szeged, Hungary, 2012
"Nature and the city" - Lecture in the conference of the International Association for Aesthetics, Bologna, Italy, 2012
Lecture in the conference of the Turkish Design History Society, Izmir, Turkey, 2012
Guest lecture at Boğaziçi University on Romanticism, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012
“The Cultural Landscape and the Shifting Art Centres”, Guest lecture at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012
Lecture in the conference on contemporary art market, Fehérvárcsurgó, Hungary, 2012
Presentation at the DAAD Winterseminar, Passau, Germany, 2012
Presentation of the book: "“The Imprenetrable Beyond”. The landscape painting in German Romanticism. Budapest, Hungary, 2011
Presentation of the catalogue of Ádám Magyar, Art Market Budapest, Hungary, 2011
Lecture on contemporary Indian art and art market, Balatonfüred, Hungary, 2011
Round table on art biennials, Art Market Budapest, Hungary, 2011
Round table on contemporary Gypsy art, Art Market Budapest, Hungary, 2011
Round table on contemporary photography, Art Market Budapest, Hungary, 2011
Vernissage of the exhibition: "Two Artist from London" (Tamás Jovánovics and Károly Keserü), Budapest, Hungary, 2011
Vernissage of the exhibition: Cered Art Camp, Salgótarján, Hungary, 2010
Vernisssage of the exhibition of Zénó Kelemen, Győr, Hungary, 2010
Lecture in the conference on Romanticism, Szarvas, Hungary, 2010
Vernissage of the exhibition of Károly Hopp-Halász, Kalocsa, Hungary, 2009
Presentation of the book: Libero Libro Essegi, Argenta, Italy, 2009
Presentation of the book: The Ways of Landscape. Walkabouts Around a Genre. Budapest, Hungary, 2008
