Nóra Lukács

independent curator and PhD Candidate, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Research topic: “If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag” The Budapest Edition. Meetings and exchanges in the artistic field in West Berlin during the Cold War

Fellowship program: Visegrad Scholarship at OSA

Duration: October/2024 - May/2025

Research Description

This project will extend Lukács's research on the cultural diplomacy of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program during the Cold War and on the West Berlin art scene as a spot of international artistic dialogue, with significant references to Eastern Europe, especially Hungary. The project culminates in an exhibition at Galeria Centralis, in 2025, showcasing both archival documents and historical and contemporary artworks, which highlight the complex sociopolitical dynamics, rhetorics, and ideological frameworks of artistic exchange.

Bio

Nóra Lukács is an independent curator and art historian based in Berlin. Currently, she is in the final stages of her PhD with an Elsa Neumann Scholarship at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin, where as guest lecturer she taught courses on archival research methods. Together with Melanie Roumiguière, she conceives comprehensive research and exhibition project on the legacy of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program: the exhibition and program series If The Berlin Wind Blows my Flag. Art and Internationalism before the Fall of the Wall was shown in Berlin, in 2023–2024, at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, the daadgalerie, the Galerie im Körnerpark, and the Akademie der Künste. For this project, she was awarded the Justus-Bier-Preis for curators 2023. Previously she worked as a curator for the museums K20 and K21 of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf and for various art institutions in Hungary.

(Photo: Hajnal Szolga)