With an MA in Art History and German Literature (ELTE, Budapest), Katalin was a curator at Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art between 2008 and 2013. Since then, she has been a PhD candidate in the Doctoral Program in Film, Media and Contemporary Culture at Eötvös Loránd University. Her field of research includes new media practices in the Neo-Avant-Garde in Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe, and institutional critique in the CEE region from the early 1960s to the present. Since 2014, she has been a member of the curatorial team of OFF-Biennale Budapest, the largest independent, grass roots arts initiative in Hungary. Since November 2015, as Creative Program Officer at Blinken OSA, she has curated and coordinated exhibitions and other public programs.

The exhibition The Symbols of Socialist Art – Revisited at the Blinken OSA explores and critically re-evaluates the Communist Iconologia.

Székely Katalin