CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION and QUALIFICATIONS:
Habilitation (venia legendi) in Philosophy
University of Szeged, Hungary, 2021
Ph.D. in Aesthetics
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, 2010
Areas of Study: History of Aesthetics and of Philosophy, History and Theory of Art History, Hermeneutics
Thesis: German Romantic Landscape Painting and Aesthetics (supervisor: Dr. Béla Bacsó)
Terminal Degree in Art History (equivalent of BA & MA)
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, June, 2006
Areas of Study: History of Arts, Western and Hungarian Arts from Antiquity to the Present
Thesis: 18th Century Italian Painting (supervisor: Dr. György Széphelyi Frankl)
Terminal Degree in Teaching Art History (equivalent of BA & MA)
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, June, 2006
Areas of Study: Pedagogy, Psychology, Methodology of Teaching of Art History
Thesis: Contemporary Challenges in Teaching Art History (supervisor: Dr. Edit Bodonyi)
Programme Degree in Art Management
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, June, 2006
SCHOLARSHIPS, RESEARCH and TEACHING GRANTS:
Senior Researcher
in the project: "Perspectives in Environmental Aesthetics" (2022-2025), supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (OTKA), Project Nr. 143294
Erasmus Staff Mobility for Teaching
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal, 2024
Erasmus Staff Mobility for Teaching
University of Akureyri, Iceland, 2023
Erasmus Staff Mobility
University of Palermo, Italy, 2022
Erasmus Staff Mobility for Teaching
University of Akureyri, Iceland, 2022
Principal Investigator
Seed Research Grant at the University of Sharjah, 2015-2016
Research topic: Ruined fortresses in the UAE and Oman. Aesthetics and Heritage
Erasmus LLP Teaching Mobility Grant
Seville University, Spain, 2014
Erasmus LLP Teaching Mobility Grant
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012
DAAD-Scholarship
Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, Fall term 2009/2010
Research Scholarship of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
University of Bologna, Italy, Fall term 2005/2006
Erasmus Scholarship
Ca’Foscari University, Venice, Italy, Spring term 2003/2004
AWARDS:
“Publication of the Year” – Award of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary for my book “Reviewing the Past. The Presence of Ruins”, 2021
“Köztásrsasági Ösztöndíj” – Grant of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education, 2005/2006
First place in the Hungarian National Competition between High Schools (OKTV) in Art History, 2000
LANGUAGES:
Hungarian: native
English: fluent
Italian: fluent
German: fluent
French: good
TEACHING, RESEARCH and WORKING EXPERIENCE:
Since September 2020 – Associate Professor of Art History
Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest
September 2019 – August 2020: Chair of the Department of Fine Arts
College of Fine Arts and Design, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
September 2014 – August 2020: Assistant Professor of Art History and Cultural Studies
College of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
March 2013 – September 2014: Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Department of Interior Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Izmir University, Turkey
September 2011 – March 2013: Assistant Professor of Aesthetics
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Szeged, Hungary
September 2010 – June 2011: Assistant Professor of History and Pedagogy of Art
Communication Institute, Faculty of Pedagogy, SZIE University in Szarvas, Hungary
September 2010 – March 2013: International Relations Manager, since March 2013: Consultant
Art Market Budapest – International Contemporary Art Fair
September 2007 – June 2009: Lecturer of Art History and Architecture History
Department of Sociology and Communication, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
September 2006 – June 2009: Member of the Romanticism Research Group
University of Pécs, Hungary
September 2006 – June 2012: Teacher of Art History
“Szimultán” Vocational School, Budapest, Hungary
BOOKS and CATALOGUES:
Author of books, catalogues and more than 200 articles, essays and critiques on classical and contemporary arts.
See the sections Publications and Bibliography for further details.
MEMBERSHIPS, ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERSHIPS and EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:
International Association for Aesthetics – Secretary General (July 2016 – August 2022)
International Association for Aesthetics – Website Editor (since 2015)
International Association for Aesthetics – Member
American Society for Aesthetics – Member
The International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences – Deputy Secretary General (since 2023)
The International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences – Executive Committee Member (since 2017)
The World Humanities Report – CIPSH/UNESCO Representative
HAS – Humanities, Arts & Society Magazine – Editor-in-Chief
Popular Inquiry: The Journal of the Aesthetics of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Culture – Associate Editor
Transcultural Aesthetics. The International Association for Aesthetics Book Series (BRILL) – Editorial Board Member
Evental Aesthetics. An Independent Journal of Philosophy – Editorial Board Member
Argument. Biannual Philosophical Journal – Advisory Board Member
Espes. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics – Advisory Board Member
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics – Advisory Board Member
Terra Aestheticae. Journal of the Russian Society for Aesthetics – Editorial Board Member
Centre for Technology, Restoration and Art Enhancement (Techn&Art), Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal – Advisory Council Member
Contemporary Identities. International Art Magazine – Curatorial Board Member
Global Studies Center of Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait – Editorial Consultant of the Newsletter
Research Centre for Aesthetics, Nature and Environment, Department of Aesthetics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest – Member
Hungarian Philosophical Society – Member
Nordic Society of Aesthetics – Member
European Society for Aesthetics – Member
Finnish Society for Aesthetics – Member
Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia – Member
Association of European Journalists – Member
Anonymous article peer-reviewing for:
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology; Argument. Biannual Philosophical Journal; Sztuka i Filozofia (Art and Philosophy); Hungarian Philosophical Review; Evental Aesthetics. An Independent Journal of Philosophy; The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics; Popular Inquiry: The Journal of the Aesthetics of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Culture; Rivista di Estetica; Journal of Arabian Studies; Journal of Somaesthetics; ESPES: The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics; Philosophia. A Global Journal of Philosophy, Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Philosophica. Ethica-Aesthetica-Practica; The Polish Journal of Aesthetics; The British Journal of Aesthetics; Ge-conservación Journal; The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism; Journal for Cultural Research; Disegno. Journal of Design Culture; Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture; AM Journal of Art and Media Studies; Aesthetica Preprint; Philosophies; Contemporary Aesthetics
Reviewer for: Palgrave Macmillan, The British Academy, BRILL Academic Publishers, Liverpool University Press
ORGANISED CONFERENCE-WORKSHOPS:
The First Annual Coffee Break Conference of Aesthetics. Velence, Hungary, 2024 (co-organised with Max Ryynänen)
Art in Action. Politics and Social Engagement in Art. Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015
Layers of the context. On the fascination of cities. Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013
CONFERENCE LECTURES, INVITED TALKS and ROUND-TABLES:
“Common Grounds: Practices and Further Opportunities for Cross-Disciplinary Research Collaboration. CIPSH and IGU” – Keynote speech in the 35th International Geographical Congress, Dublin, Ireland, 2024
“The Difficult Heritage and Aesthetic Challenges of Bunkers” – Paper presentation in the Roundtable titled “Dark Aesthetics. War, Destructions and Massacres in Art and Everyday Life”, organised by the International Association for Aesthetics at the XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome, Italy, 2024
“Should Scientists listen to philosophers? – DLMPST/IUHPST panel” – Participation in the panel discussion organised by the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology / International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome, Italy, 2024
“Depicting Sport and Wellness in Art Through Ages” – Paper presentation in the 2024 Taipei Health Humanities Conference: Humanities in “One Health”, Taipei, Taiwan, 2024
“Shifting Real-World Art Habits to Virtual Spaces” – Paper presentation in the 2024 Taipei Health Humanities Conference: Humanities in “One Health”, Taipei, Taiwan, 2024
Discussion of my paper titled “The Art in Monuments” in The First Annual Coffee Break Conference of Aesthetics. Velence, Hungary, 2024
Guest lecturing on aesthetics and heritage within the framework of Erasmus Staff Mobility for Teaching, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal, 2024
“The aesthetic potential of the not (yet) civilised urban environment” – Paper presentation in the conference “ECHO – Civilised Nature. Aesthetics in theory and practice”, Budapest, Hungary, 2024
“Real problems with fake ruins. What is at stake in the conservation of follies?” – Paper presentation in the panel “Philosophy and Practice of Heritage Conservation and Reuse”, in the 81st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Arlington, VA, USA, 2023
“What are we fighting for then? The time has come to be worried about and take responsibility for the sustainability of our culture” – Round table moderation at Art Market Budapest – International Contemporary Art Fair, Budapest, Hungary, 2023
“From Nostalgic Ruins to Challenging Monuments” – Paper presentation in the workshop titled “Nostalgia and Aesthetics” at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna, Austria, 2023
“New Techno-Humanities: Sustainable Development for Human Community” – Co-Chair of a Round table on techno-humanities in the CIPSH International Conference: Humanities in the Global and Digital Age. The role of Humanities research traditions and interactions in contemporary society, The University of Tokyo and Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 2023 (online)
“How to conserve a fake ruin? Heritage dilemmas between aesthetics and practice” – Paper presentation in the annual conference of the European Society for Aesthetics, Budapest, Hungary, 2023
“The changing modes and manifestations of ruination. Nostalgia for classical decay” – Paper presentation in the panel titled “Varieties of Sustainability in the Relationship Between Art and Nature” in the International Institute of Applied Aesthetics XV International Summer Conference: Scoping Sustainable Aesthetics. Rethinking Nature, Man-Made Environment, Lahti, Finland, 2023
“Reflecting the codes. Investigations of cultural complexities in contemporary visual arts” – Paper presentation in the international conference “Multimodal Code-Switching”, Budapest, Hungary, 2023
“Conversation with the art historian Zoltán Somhegyi” – Invitation for a talk at the University of Szeged, Hungary, 2023
“Introduction to Aesthetics” – Guest lectures at the University of Akureyri, Iceland, within the framework of Erasmus Staff Mobility for Teaching, University of Akureyri, Iceland, 2023
“The Intercultural Perspectives of Ruins. Decaying Heritage and What Do We Do With It” – Guest lecture at the University of Malaga, Spain, 2023
“Curing and Caring Through Art. Memory and Memorials in Times of Changing Interpretation of the Contested Past” – Keynote speaker in the international conference “Tracking Global Wokeism”, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait, 2023
“What is Translatable in Art? Opportunities, Challenges and Revisitations of Cultural Interconnections” – Paper presentation in the Third CIPSH International Academy on Chinese Cultures and Global Humanities Seminar: “Towards a Common Heritage”, Lisbon, Portugal, 2022
“From Pergamon to Detroit. Classical Ruins and Decaying Architecture Between Aesthetics and Ethics” – Paper presentation in the conference organised by ELTE University, celebrating the 150th anniversary of art history education in Hungary. Budapest, Hungary, 2022
“Encountering the Past. Aesthetic and Ethical Issues of Ruination and Decay” – Guest lecture at the University of Palermo, Italy, 2022
“The Construction of Romantic Landscapes. Caspar David Friedrich and His Circle” – Invited talk within the framework of a series of lectures on the history of landscape painting, organised by The Space, Budapest, Hungary, 2022
“Aesthetic relics of the agency of Nature. Questions and challenges around the conservation and reconstruction of (built) heritage in the Anthropocene” – Paper presentation in the 1st Relics of Nature workshop: Sustainability and heritage in the Anthropocene, University of Oslo, Norway, 2022
“Ruins Around Caspar David Friedrich. Changing Pictorial Aspects of Decaying Heritage” – Paper presentation in the international conference: Aesthetic Communication in Europe 1700-1900, Budapest, Hungary, 2022
“From the Awareness of Care to the Care of Awareness. Aesthetic and Ethical Perspectives Around Endangered Environments” – Paper presentation in the Conference of the Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group, Oslo, Norway, 2022
“The Aesthetics of Ruins and of Architectural Dereliction” – Guest Lecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2022 (online)
“Painting Wind. On Some Sublime Aspects of Art and Nature” – Paper presentation in the International Symposium: The Imagery of Wind, Organised by The research group of the Studies on Representations of Landscape, the Institute of Oriental and Occidental Studies, Kansai University. The Study Group of the Netherlandish Arts in Japan, 2022 (online)
“Chapters from the History of Beauty” – Guest lectures at the University of Akureyri, Iceland, within the framework of Erasmus Staff Mobility for Teaching, University of Akureyri, Iceland, 2022
“The Birth, Life and Possible Afterlives of Ruins. Aesthetics, Experience and Issues of Conservation around Architectural Decay” – invited talk at ART (Aesthetics Research Torino), a periodic philosophical seminar, organised by the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences of the University of Turin and the PhD Program FINO, 2022 (online)
“The Humanities, Museums, and Art,” – Round table moderation at the CIPSH (The International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences) international conference “Sustainability, Social Relevance, and the Humanities: Opportunities and Challenges”, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, 2021
“Values and Challenges of Ruins. Aesthetic Investigations Around Architectural Dereliction,” – Guest lecture at Sichuan University, China, 2021
“Learning, Playing, Creating. On the Diverse Forms of Early Art Appreciation,” – Paper presentation at the international conference: The Values of Play. A Cultural and Educational Analyses. Hangzhou, China, 2021
“Central Europe in the Centre of Attention. The power of regionalism and the emerging interest in cultural cooperation within the Visegrad Group countries,” – Round table moderation at Art Market Budapest – International Contemporary Art Fair, Budapest, Hungary, 2021
“Avant-Garde Anatomy. Dissection and Re-composition of Art and its History in the Oeuvre of Milorad Krstic,” – Paper presentation at the International Association of Aesthetics Interim Conference: European Avant-Garde – A Hundred Years Later. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2021
From Ruins to the Ruins of Ruins: The Challenging Afterlife of Architectural Dereliciton,” – Presentation in the “Ringvorlesung” (lecture series) titled: Ruins from the Perspectives of Cultural Studies and Humanities, Universität Hamburg, Germany, 2021
“Heritage, Mobility and Identities,” – Round table discussion at the European Humanities Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2021
“Contemporary Art and Children. Possibilities and Challenges of the Education of Visual Art Appreciation in Exhibitions and Art Fairs,” – Paper presentation at the 2021 International Conference on Childhood Studies, Hangzhou, China, 2021
“From Densely Filled Vistas to Empty Piazzas. City Images Interpreting the Oscillating Dynamisms of Urban Reality,” – Paper presentation at the 4th International Conference: Aesthetic Energy of the City. Urban Images, Lodz, Poland, 2021
“Aesthetics and environmental dereliction,” – Paper presentation at the conference Coordinates of Aesthetics, Art and Culture VI.: Art, Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Everyday Life, Presov, Slovakia, 2020
“The Impact of COVID-19 on the arts,” – Presentation at the 3. Online Conference: Planetary Health and Humanities, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2020
Guidelines for COVID-19 Containment Measures: Privacy, Equality, and Fairness,” Round table discussion at the 2. Online Conference: Planetary Health and Humanities, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2020
“The Aesthetics of Ruins,” – invited talk (online) on my book: Reviewing the Past: The Presence of Ruins at The Wednesday Group, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2020
“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 (CIPSH), the Asian New Humanities Net (ANHN) 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
“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, 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
“Chapters from the History of Art Collecting,” Public talk World Art Dubai international contemporary art fair, United Arab Emirates, 2016
“Art from walls. Aesthetic re-elaborations from the in the MENASA region and Central Asia,” The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) conference on Arts and Humanities, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2016
“Imagining ruins. Considerations on the aesthetics of heritage,” Interdisciplinary conference on Imagination at the American University of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, 2016
“Artistic perspectives of the Middle East,” Round table discussion organised and moderated at Art Market Budapest – International Contemporary Art Fair, Budapest, Hungary, 2015
“Memory and politics through art. Contemporary examples from the Middle East and beyond,” Art in Action. Politics and Social Engagement in Art. Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015
“Learning from Detroit? From materialised dreams to bitter awakening. Aesthetics around decayed shopping malls,” Revisions of Modern Aesthetics. Conference of the International Association for Aesthetics. University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Serbia, 2015
“Focus on East. The shift and rise of art hubs,” Public talk at World Art Dubai international contemporary art fair, United Arab Emirates, 2015
“Contemporary Art in Central Asia,” Public talk at World Art Dubai international contemporary art fair, United Arab Emirates, 2015
Presentation on contemporary photography in the Middle East and Artist talk with Siniša Vlajković on the occasion of his exhibition in CUBO Centro Unipol di Bologna, Italy, 2014
“Multi-ethnicity as source of inspiration,” Ottoman Cosmopolitanism International Conference, London, Birkbeck College, United Kingdom, 2014
“The ways of collecting II. – Places and concepts of art collecting,” Workshop at Akbank Sanat Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014
“Shortcuts to nostalgia? On the attempts of aestheticisation of the past,” Annual conference of the Nordic Society of Aesthetics, Haaga-Helia University, Helsinki, Finland, 2014
“The ways of collecting I. – The history of art collecting,” Workshop at Akbank Sanat Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014
“Depicted (as) ruins. Archaeology and painting in the 18th and 19th centuries,” Public lecture at the Institute Français d’Izmir, organised by the Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey, 2014
“Contemporary art and social responsibility,” Guest lecture at the Department of Visual Communication Design of Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, 2014
“Possibilities and challenges in public art,” Presentation at the meeting of the Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Programme, Izmir, Turkey, 2014
“Scientific nostalgia? Archaeology, aesthetics and politics,” Guest lecture at Seville University, Spain, 2014
“The aesthetic status of contemporary ruins,” Guest lecture at Seville University, Spain, 2014
“Remembrance or anticipation? From the ruins to the museum – and back,” Invited talk at the University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2014
“Approaching the landscape,” Invited talk at Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013
“Contemporary ruins. A contradiction in terms?” II. Sanart Turkish Congress for Aesthetics, Mersin, Turkey, 2013
“Layers of the past. On the potential of ruins,” Layers of the context. On the fascination of cities. Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013
“The pleasure of ruins,” 19th International Congress of Aesthetics. Krakow, Poland, 2013
“Contemporary Central and Eastern European art and art market,” Workshop of Artmark.ro, Bucharest, Romania, 2013
Round-table discussion 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
“From Domination to Respect,” Conference of the International Association for Aesthetics, Bologna, Italy, 2012
“Design and the Audience,” Conference of Turkish Design History Society. Izmir, Turkey, 2012
“Shifting art centres,” Invited talk at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012
“Romantic landscapes,” Invited talk at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012
“On Ways of Cooperation Between For- and Nonprofit Art Sectors,” Contemporary Art Market: Passion? Speculation? Fehérvárcsurgó, Hungary, 2012
“Art and migration,” Presentation at the DAAD Winterseminar, Passau, Germany, 2012
Lecture on Contemporary Indian art and art market, Balatonfüred, Hungary, 2011
“Berlin’s symbols,” Conference of the Laboratorio di ricerca sulle città. Bologna, Italy, 2011
Round-table discussion on art biennials, Art Market Budapest, Hungary, 2011
Round-table discussion on contemporary Gipsy art, Art Market Budapest, Hungary, 2011
Round-table discussion on contemporary photography, Art Market Budapest, Hungary, 2011
“Reason and art,” Conference of the Hungarian Philosophical Society. Szeged, Hungary, 2011
“Carl Gustav Carus,” Science and scholars in Romanticism. Conference of the SZIE University, Szarvas, Hungary, 2011
“The ruin in Romanticism,” Romantic interpretations of the Middle Ages. Conference of the SZIE University, Szarvas, Hungary, 2010
“The Tieck-brothers and Göttingen,” The dimensions of Göttingen. Conference of the SZIE University, Szarvas, Hungary, 2009
“The Studio. On some characteristics of the painting of Caspar David Friedrich,” Institutes in Romanticism. Conference of the SZIE University, Szarvas, Hungary, 2008
CURATED EXHIBITIONS:
“Matter” – Online exhibition of Ádám Magyar’s works. ContemporaryIdentities Online Art Gallery, 2021
“From Landscape to Cityscape” – Photographs by Tor Seidel. Rewaq Gallery of the College of Fine Arts and Design, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2017
“Perspectives of the Middle East” – Selection of faculty and student work from the University of Sharjah. Art Market Budapest – International Contemporary Art Fair. Budapest, Hungary, 2015
“Anachronicle” – The Middle East through the eyes of Siniša Vlajković. Makina Gallery, Pula, Croatia, 2015
“Cornucopia” – Staff and Faculty exhibition of the College of Fine Arts and Design. University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2015
“Out of Time” – Reflexions and memory of the Middle East by Siniša Vlajković. CUBO Centro Unipol di Bologna, Italy, 2014
“Creative Transgressions” – Löffler Béla Museum Kosice, Slovakia, 2013
“Berlinspirations”. Műterem Gallery, Debrecen, Hungary, 2013
“Contemporary Gipsy Art” – Art Market Budapest – International Contemporary Art Fair. Budapest, Hungary, 2011
“Bibekananda Santra” – Vaszary Villa, Balatonfüred, Hungary, 2011
“Sotto lo stesso tricolore” – Villa Guadagnini, Bologna, Italy, 2011
“Die Ernte” – Amadeus Foundation. Klosterneuburg, Austria, 2011
“The Clean Room as a Work of Art” – Cered, Hungary, 2010
SERVICE:
University Service at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
Since July 2022 – Supervisor of the Specialisation in Modern and Contemporary Art of the MA Programme of Art History
University Service at the University of Sharjah
September 2017 – August 2020 – Member of the University Research Board
September 2018 – March 2019 – Member of the Steering Committee for the Master in Management of Heritage Sites Conservation and Museum Collections
December 2014 – Member of the Committee to review the accreditation response of the Art History and Museum Studies BA Program in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Service at the College of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Sharjah
September 2015 – June 2017 and September 2019 – August 2020 – Member of the College Council
September 2014 – June 2018 – Member of the Publications and Research Committee
September 2015 – June 2018 – Chair of the Library Committee (Since September 2018 Library liaison)
September 2016 – June 2017 – Member of the Recruitment Committee
September 2015 – June 2017 – Member of the Academic Distinction and Awards Committee
September 2015 – June 2016 – Member of the Grievance Committee
September 2014 – June 2015 – Member of the Study Plan and Curriculum Committee
September 2014 – June 2015 – Member of the Accreditation Committee
September 2014 – June 2015 – Member of the Events Committee