Ephemeral Architecture in Central-Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
Budapest, 28-29th November 2013

A two days conference organized by The Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Art History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with CentrArt Association – New Workshopfor Art Historians

Conference hall of Budapest City Archives
(H-1139 Budapest, Teve str. 3-5.)

1st Day –Thursday, 28th November 2013

8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00 Welcome speaches
Miklós Székely (Organizer of the conference),
István Kenyeres (Director General of Budapest City Archives),
József Sisa (Director of Institute of Art History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

9:30-10.00 Keynore Speech: Anna Korndorf, Ekaterina Viazova (Department of Russian Art and Architecture, State Institute of Art History)
Utopia of Transparency: 19th-Century Exhibition Pavilion Architecture as Mythological Project

10.00-11.00. Section1. Architecture, origins, materials.Chair: József Sisa

Dr. Gianenrico Bernasconi (Institut für Populäre Kulturen, Universität Zürich)
The tentroom

Magdalena Żakowska (Central and Eastern Europe Department, Faculty of International and Political Studies, University of Łódź)
Austrian and Russian National Pavilions as Mediums of National Self-Representations at the Vienna World Exposition 1873

11.00-11.30CoffeeBreak

11.30-12.50. Section2. The Hungarian Millennium at the Crossroad of Nation Buildings Chair: Pál Lővei

Paolo Cornaglia PhD (Turin Polytechnic, Department of Architecture and Design)
Franczia étterem: the French restaurant by Karman& Ullmann in the National Hungarian Exhibition of 1896

Dragan Damjanović PhD, doc.(Art History Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb University)
Croatian Pavilions at the 1896 Millennium Exhibition in Budapest

Miklós Székely PhD (Institute of Art History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Representation reduced and exported: The re-setting of the Main Historical group of the Millennium Exhibition at the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition

12.50-13.50Lunchbreak

13:50-15.30. Section3. „Western Venues, Eastern Nations.”Chair: Miklós Székely

Cosmin Tudor Minea MA (Central European University, Budapest)
Creating a National Architecture : the Pavilions of the Balkan Countries at Two 19th Century Universal Exhibitions

Dr. Aleksandar Ignjatović (University of Belgrade)
Competing Byzantinisms: Architectural Imagination of the Balkan Nations at the Paris World Exhibitionin 1900

Ágnes Sebestyén (University of Bern, Institute of Art History)
The Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Universal Exposition of 1900 in Paris: a Case Study

Cristiana Volpi PhD (University of Trento, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering)
The Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Tradition and modernity during one century

15.30-16.00 Coffeebreak

16.00-17.20. Section4. „Eastern Venues, Eastern Nations.” Chair: Dr. Aleksandar Ignjatović

Deniz Türker PhD candidate (Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the History of Art and Architecture Department&Dumbarton Oaks Tyler Fellow)
The ‘Ottoman’ Pavilions at the Turn-of-the-Century

Silvija Grosa, Dr. art (Art Academy of Latvia)
Between National Romanticism, Modernist Tendencies and Traditionalism – Two Exhibitionsin Riga at theTurn of the 20th Century

Weronika Grzesiak, MA (Art History Institute, Jagiellonian University inCracow)
National Representations on the General Provincial Exhibition (Lviv 1894)
 
2nd Day –Friday 29th November 2013

9:00-9.30 Keynore Speech: Ágnes Anna Sebestyén (Archaeolingua Foundation, Budapest)
Shaping Ephemeral Architecture by the Media

9.30-9.50. Tamás Csáki (Budapest City Archives)
Ephemeral architecture of the Metropolis: plans for urban pavilions by Bertalan Árkay from the 1920s

9.50-10.20 Coffeebreak – Meanwhile: Optional guided visit in the storage of Budapest City Archive exclusively for conference speakers by Tamás Csáki.

10.20-11.40. Section6. Rise, Fall and Shift of Ideologies II.Chair:

Marta Filipová, PhD (University of Wolverhampton)
From the national village house to the international expo pavilion: ephemeral ideologies?

Mgr. Petra Nováková (Palacký University of Olomouc, Czech Republic, Department of the History of Art)
State propaganda at the background of the Czechoslovak temporary exhibition installations at LaTriennale di Milano, 1923-1968

Aleksandra Stamenković MA (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Department for Art History)
Ephemeral Structure of National Pavilions on World Fairs 1918-1941

11.40-12.40 Lunchbreak

12:40-14.00. Section7. Bridges over the Iron Curtain I.Chair: Pál Ritoók (Hungarian Museum of Architecture)

Nikolas Drosos (Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2013-15 Chester Dale Fellow, Center for Advanced Studyinthe Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Modernism with a Human Face: Communist Europe atthe 1958 World Fair

Péter Haba (Lecturerat Department of Design and Art History, Institute of Theoretical Studies, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest)
The rise of aluminium, Pavilionsby ALUTERV inthe Budapest City Park trade fair centre

Mirna Meštrović, DipArch MS, Aleksander Laslo DipArch (Development Department of Zagreb City Administration)
Fair ground as Geopolitical Playground: Zagreb International Trade Fair and Cold War Circumstances

14.00-14.30 Coffeebreak

14.30-15.50. Section8. Bridges over the Iron Curtain II Chair: Marta Filipová

Katarzyna Cytlak, PhD (Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Centro de Estudios sobre los Mundos Eslavos y Chinos, Buenos Aires)
The American Pavilionforthe International Fair Trade in Poznan, 1957: Richard Buckminster Fuller’s Legacy in Central Europe

Doc. ing. arch. Radomíra Sedláková, CSc.(National GalleryinPrague, curator of thecollection of Architecture, Praguetechnical University, Faculty of Civil Ingeneering, department of Architecture)
Two czecoslovak pavilons / two different ideological fates

Lara Slivnik PhD (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture, Ljubljana)
Architecture, Competition, Pavilon: Yugoslav Pavilion at Montreal Expo 67

15.50-16.20 Coffeebreak

16:20-18:00. Section9. Contemporary Reception of Ephemerity. Chair: Hajnalka Somogyi (Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art)

Helena Postawka-Lech, M.A.(International Cultural Centre in Krakow, Institute of Art History, Jagiellonian University (Krakow)
Papier-mâchéhammer and sickle. Decorations and temporary architecture of official gatherings, parades and festivals in Krakow between 1968 and 1989

Dr. Ayse Nur Erek(Yeditepe University, Humboldt University)
The Afterlife of Ephemeral Architecture: The Pavilion in the Context of a Contemporary Art Exhibition

Dr. Bahar Beslioglu (Faculty of Architecture at M.S.G.S.U, Istanbul)
The Pavilion in the Context of a Contemporary Art Exhibition

Dr. Roula Matar-Perret PhD (UniversitéRennes 2 / ENSA Paris LaVillette)
David Maljkovic’s attempttore animate Sambito’s pavilion in Zagreb

18:00 Closing remarques

3rd Day

9:00-10.30 Guided walk in Budapest City Park
11:00-12:30 Visit tothe Museum of AppliedArts

Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale