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AICA Prize nomination

The exhibition was nominated for the prize of the Hungarian Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) in the category of best curatorial project/exhibition:
https://artportal.hu/program/tiz-ev-szunet-utan-ujra-aica-dij/
https://www.artmagazin.hu/articles/hir/a_2023_as_aica_dij_laudacioi

Articles

Artmagazin Online
(online)
Sándor Őze
Tanúságtétel, propaganda, dekoráció (Testimony, Propaganda, Decoration)
November 30, 2023
https://www.artmagazin.hu/articles/cikk/megrendelt_emlekezet_magyar_kiallitasok_auschwitzban_1960_1965

Balkon
(print and online)
Hedvig Turai
Művészet és történelem az archívumban (Art and History in the Archive)
2024, forthcoming

Budapest Business Journal
(print+online)
Kester Eddy
Artists Beating Around the Brush: Art, Politics and the Holocaust in 1960s Hungary
Issue 17, September 22, 2023, p. 22
https://bbj.hu/budapest/festivals/in-hungary/artists-beating-around-the-brush-art-politics-and-the-holocaust-in-1960s-hungary

Magyar Narancs
(print+online)
Kriszta Dékei
Feladatmegoldás (Task Solution)
Issue 39, September 28, 2023, p. 40
https://magyarnarancs.hu/kritika/feladatmegoldas-262105

Mozgó Világ
(print)
József Mélyi
Az emlékeztetés helyszínváltozásai (Changes in Mnemonic Topography)
Issue 11, November 2023, p. 118–121

MúzeumCafé
(print+online)
Tímea Jablonczay
2024, forthcoming

Népszava
(print+online)
Gábor Tölgyesi
Emlékezet és politika (Memory and Politics) (print)
Holokauszt és politika Magyarországon – Rendeztek egy kiállítást, amelynek 120 paneljéből csak 10 utalt a zsidó áldozatokra (Holocaust and Politics in Hungary – An exhibition was organized, but only 10 of its 120 panels referred to the Jewish victims) (online)
October 27, 2023, p. 11
https://nepszava.hu/3213500_holokauszt-politika-magyarorszag-kiallitas-szocializmus-centralis-galeria

Perspectives Budapest
(online)
Kester Eddy
An exhibition about exhibitions? – In case you think that's odd, you would not be alone
October 10, 2023
https://www.perspectives-budapest.com/post/an-exhibition-about-exhibitions-in-case-you-think-that-s-odd-you-would-not-be-alone

Szombat
(online)
Zsuzsa Szarka
Auschwitzi magyar pavilon, 1965 – a megrendelt emlékezet (Auschwitz Hungarian Pavilion, 1965 – The Commissioned Memory)
September 29, 2023
https://www.szombat.org/kultura-muveszetek/auschwitzi-magyar-pavilon-1965-a-megrendelt-emlekezet

Szombat
(online)
Kitti Szabó
A „Budapest Jewish Studies Colloquium” (The Budapest Jewish Studies Colloquium)
November 23, 2023
https://www.szombat.org/kultura-muveszetek/a-budapest-jewish-studies-colloquium

444.hu
(online)
Elhalványuló emlékezet: egy online Auschwitz-kiállítás archiválása (Lost Memory: Archiving an Online Auschwitz Exhibit)
April 16, 2023
https://osaarchivum.444.hu/2023/04/16/elhalvanyulo-emlekezet-egy-online-auschwitz-kiallitas-archivalasa

OSA Blog
(online, English translation of the article above)
Márton Németh
Lost Memory: Archiving an Online Auschwitz Exhibit
April 16, 2023
https://osaarchivum.org/blog/lost-memory-archiving-an-online-auschwitz-exhibit

Roma Holocaust
(publications by the curator, based on an interview)
A shortened version of the video interview is available on Blinken OSA Archivum’s YouTube page (in Hungarian, with English subtitles):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gSL15naeA4

Artmagazin Online
(online)
Daniel Véri
“An unattainable floating whiteness, now that would have been something.” Interview with György Jovánovics about his 1974 Plans for a Roma Holocaust Memorial
August 2, 2023
https://www.artmagazin.hu/articles/in_english/an_unattainable_floating_whiteness_now_that_would_have_been_something

Artmagazin
(print+online, the original, Hungarian version of the English translation above)
Daniel Véri
„Egy elérhetetlen fehér lebegés, az azért valami lett volna.” Interjú Jovánovics Györggyel 1974-es Cigány holokauszt emlékmű terveiről (“An unattainable floating whiteness, now that would have been something.” Interview with György Jovánovics about his 1974 Plans for a Roma Holocaust Memorial)
Issue 143, p. 56–61

444.hu
(online)
„Őt oda lőtték be a magyarok, közkatonák” – Interjú Jovánovics Györggyel 1974-es cigány holokauszt emlékmű terveiről (“She Had Been Shot into It by Hungarians, by Privates” – Interview with György Jovánovics about his 1974 Plans for a Roma Holocaust Memorial)
November 6, 2023
https://osaarchivum.444.hu/2023/11/06/ot-oda-lottek-be-a-magyarok-kozkatonak-interju-jovanovics-gyorggyel-az-1974-es-cigany-holokauszt-emlekmu-terveirol

OSA Blog
(online, English translation of the article above)
“She Had Been Shot into It by Hungarians, by Privates” – Interview with György Jovánovics about his 1974 Plans for a Roma Holocaust Memorial
November 6, 2023
https://osaarchivum.org/blog/%E2%80%9Cshe-had-been-shot-into-it-by-hungarians-by-privates%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-interview-with-gy%C3%B6rgy-jov%C3%A1novics-about-

Radio interviews

Klubrádió
Café Péntek
editor–reporter: Júlia Váradi
interviewee: Daniel Véri
September 15, 2023, 8 p.m. (23:30–33:00)
https://www.klubradio.hu/adasok/arc-es-gerinc-138457 https://www.klubradio.hu/archivum/cafe-pentek-2023-szeptember-15-pentek-2000-35719

Tilos Rádió
Dafke
participants: Ádám Schönberger, Eszter Susán, Daniel Véri
October 8, 2023, 54 minutes
https://tilos.hu/episode/dafke/2023/10/08
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4rK9M3tNiMV1LFXC3mHbgJ