Sára Bagdi
Researcher
bagdi.sara@pim.hu
Between 2021 and 2025 she is a researcher of the research project of the Kassák Museum "Digital Critical Edition of the Correspondence of Lajos Kassák and Jolán Simon between 1909 and 1928, and New Perspectives for Modernism Studies" (OTKA FK-139325). She holds an MA in art history (ELTE, 2018) and aesthetics (ELTE, 2019). During her studies, she visited the Philosophy Department at the University of Warsaw and the Visual Culture Department at Leiden University for one semester each. Since 2021 she is working on her PhD at the doctoral school of the Department of Aesthetics at ELTE with a DAAD bi-national scholarship, and investigates phenomena of "otherness" in the Hungarian labour movement. Her research interests include interwar culture, primitivism and the history of left-wing ideas.
Sára Bagdi's publications: MTMT
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Eszter Balázs PhD
Principal invesigator
eszterbalazs0915@gmail.com
Between 2017 and 2022 she is the principal investigator of the research project of the Kassák Museum "Lajos Kassák's Avant-Garde Journals from an Interdisciplinary Perspective (1915–1928)" (OTKA K-120779). Historian (ELTE, CEU). She holds a joint PhD from EHESS (Paris) and ELTE (Budapest) in "Histoire et Civilisations" (2008). Her book on the "critical intellectual" and the question of literary autonomy in Hungarian classical modernist literary journals (1908–1914), based on her PhD, was published in 2009 in Budapest. Since 2009, she is an associate professor at the János Kodolányi University, Department of Communication and Media Studies (Budapest). Between 2014 and 2018 she received the János Bolyai research scholarship from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to work on Hungarian intellectual life during the First World War. As a result, she recently published a book on writers and other intellectuals during the First World War in Hungarian (2021). She co-authored a book on press journalism and photographs taken during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (with Phil Casoar). She is on the editorial board of the Hungarian periodical Médiakutató, and she is a member of the Working Committee on Press History of the Cultural History Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Eszter Balázs' publications: MTMT
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Judit Csatlós
Curator
csatlos.judit@pim.hu
She is a curator of the Kassák Museum since 2011. She got her diplomas from the Department of Cultural Anthropology and the Department of Museology at the Miskolc University. Between 2007 and 2011 she worked for the Hungarian webshop Bookline.hu in the team responsible for the online communication. Between 2009 and 2012 she was a board member of the Young Artists Studio Association. He has worked regularly with the Lumen Foundation for Photographic Art, curated contemporary art exhibitions and wrote articles on contemporary art. Her interests focus on the social investigation of art, using anthropological-sociological research methods. She conceptualized the series "Social Movements in Modernity” and curated several exhibitions of this series at the Kassák Museum.
Judit Csatlós' publications: MTMT
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Gábor Dobó PhD
Researcher, principal investigator
dobo.gabor@pim.hu
He is a researcher and curator at the Kassák Museum since 2015. Between 2017 and 2022 he is a researcher of the research project of the Kassák Museum "Lajos Kassák's Avant-Garde Journals from an Interdisciplinary Perspective (1915–1928)" (OTKA K-120779). Between 2021 and 2025 he is the principal investigator of the research project of the Kassák Museum "Digital Critical Edition of the Correspondence of Lajos Kassák and Jolán Simon between 1909 and 1928, and New Perspectives for Modernism Studies" (OTKA FK-139325). He is a PhD literary historian focusing on modernist periodicals of the interwar period, with a special emphasis on the East and Central European region. Prior to his PhD, he studied at universities in Hungary, Italy, and France. In Spring 2022, he is a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University. He is a committee member of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit).
Gábor Dobó's publications: MTMT, Academia
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Erzsébet Károly
Financial manager
karoly.erzsebet@kassakalapitvany.hu
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Zsófia Márton
Associate for communication and public relations, cashier
marton.zsofia@pim.hu
She works in the Kassák Museum since 2020. She received her MA in Art Theory and Curatorial studies from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2016. As a museum communication and public relations associate, she is involved in the preparation and background tasks of exhibitions, welcomes and assists visitors, and is responsible for ticket and publication sales.
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Edit Sasvári
Curator
sasvari.edit@pim.hu
She was head of department (director) of the Kassák Museum between 2010 and 2020, since 2020 she is a curator of the museum. Between 2017 and 2022 she is a researcher of the research project of the Kassák Museum "Lajos Kassák's Avant-Garde Journals from an Interdisciplinary Perspective (1915–1928)" (OTKA K-120779). She studied at the Janus Pannonius University (Pécs) and graduated in art history at ELTE (Budapest) and in museum curatorial studies at the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft in Vienna. She completed her doctoral studies at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of the Department of Modern History of the University of Pécs (2010). Since 1988, she has been working in the museum field, her interests include historical modernism and the avant-gardes, as well as issues of art policy in the post-1945 period. In 2003 she co-authored the book Illegal Avant-Garde: The Balatonboglar Chapel Studio of György Galántai, 1970–1973 (with Júlia Klaniczay). She has curated several exhibitions over the years. In 2011, she co-curated the exhibition Kassák. The Ambassador of the Avant-Garde in the Berlinische Galerie (with Franciska Zólyom). In 2015, she was invited to the "C-Map" seminar od the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Between 2014 and 2016, she initiated and ran a research programme in the Kassak Museum, as a result of which the volume Art in Hungary 1956–1980: Doublespeak and Beyond was published by Thames and Hudson and Vince in 2018.
Edit Sasvári's publications: MTMT
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Merse Pál Szeredi
Curator, head of department
szeredi.merse.pal@pim.hu
He is a researcher and curator at the Kassák Museum since 2015. Since 2020 he is the head of department (director) of the Kassák Museum. Between 2017 and 2022 he is a researcher of the research project of the Kassák Museum "Lajos Kassák's Avant-Garde Journals from an Interdisciplinary Perspective (1915–1928)" (OTKA K-120779). Between 2021 and 2025 he is a researcher of the research project of the Kassák Museum "Digital Critical Edition of the Correspondence of Lajos Kassák and Jolán Simon between 1909 and 1928, and New Perspectives for Modernism Studies" (OTKA FK-139325). MA art historian (ELTE, 2013), he is currently working on his PhD (ELTE). He has curated exhibitions there and in the Virág Judit Gallery (Budapest) and the Janus Pannonius Museum (Pécs). He has also worked on exhibitions in the Hungarian National Gallery and the Berlinische Galerie. His work, written in Hungarian, English and German, has been published in several academic journals, exhibition catalogues and multi-author volumes. His research focuses on Hungarian avant-garde art and the history of Lajos Kassák’s magazine Ma (Today) in Vienna between 1920 and 1925, with special emphasis on its international networks.
Merse Pál Szeredi's publications: MTMT, Academia
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Renáta Szikra
Associate for communication and public relations
szikra.renata@pim.hu
She is the associate for communication and public relations of the Kassák Museum since 2019. Art historian, graduated at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, in Art History and English Language and Literature. Between 1994 and 1999, she was the cultural manager of the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin. Between 2005 and 2007, she held the Ernő Kállai scholarship for art history and art criticism. Between 2011 and 2019, she was the editor of the Hungarian periodical Artmagazin. Her field of research is contemporary garden art and garden history.
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Cooperating partners in museum pedagogy
Orsolya Barna, Heléna D. Nagy, Péter Forgách, Eszter Losonczi, Kata Martincsák, Edit Matuz, Judit Radák, Renáta Szikra, Emma Teleki, Lili Thury, Anna Vékony, Dia Zékány
Previous colleagues
- Orsolya Barna, cultural public employee
- Zsófia Bene, associate for communication and public relations, project manager
- György Fogarasy, security guard
- Beáta Istvánkó, project manager
- Anna Mária Juhász, associate for communication and public relations, curator, project manager
- Boglárka Kőrösi, associate for communication and public relations, curator, project manager
- Éva Léder, cashier
- Eszter Őze, associate for communication and public relations, curator, project manager
- Katalin Sugár, cultural public employee
- Barbara Szabó, financial assistant
- Katalin Szőke, associate for communication and public relations, project manager
- Dia Zékány, cashier, museum educator
- Attila Abai, security guard
Previous interns
Gloria Abbruzzo (Erasmus+), Bálint Ács, Sára Bagdi, Eszter Barócs, Anna Benkovits, Krisztina Csaba, Borka Csejdy, Heléna Csóka, Tamás Don, Zsófia Drienyovszky, Kitti Farda, Ágnes Ferenczi, Funmilayo Akinpelu, Judit Galácz, Kitti Nikolett Horváth, Anna Juhász, Péter Kankulya, Fanny Kisbajcsi, Sára Krnacs, Kitti Kovács, Petra Kovács, Olga Körner, Boglárka Kőrösi, Melinda Mártonffy, Márta Mélyi, Barbara Mózs, Barbara Oláh, Zsófia Rechnitzer, Anna Sándor, Katalin Sugár, Barbara Szabó, Anna Vékony, Fruzsina Vida, Zsuzsanna Zsuró
Previous volunteers
Mária Árvai, Lóránt Bódi, Gábor Dobó, Réka Kenéz, Dóra Kis, Viola Lukács, Márta Mélyi, Klaudia Mészáros, Ivett Mikó, Emese Mucsi, Merse Pál Szeredi, Katalin Sugár, Eliza Szuromi
Cooperating partners