Dávid Fehér

Dávid Fehér is the Director of Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) and Curator of 20th Century and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. He earned his PhD in art history from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest in 2018, where he recently works as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art History. His research focuses on the art history of Hungary and Eastern Europe after 1960, especially the reception of photorealism, pop art and conceptual art, and the theories of contemporary painting. His work on photorealism and his survey of the transformations of Pop Art in Hungary and Eastern Europe have been published in the exhibition catalogues “East of Eden. Photorealism: Versions of Reality” (Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2012) and “International Pop” (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2015). He contributed to such publications as “Art in Hungary 1956-1980: Doublespeak and Beyond” (Thames & Hudson, London, 2018); “Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary” (Getty Publications, Los Angeles, 2018); “Abstract Hungary” (Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2019) and “Dóra Maurer” (Tate Publishing, London, 2019). Fehér’s curatorial work includes museum exhibitions about the work of László Lakner, Imre Bak, Sean Scully, William Kentridge, Henri Matisse and the artists of the School of London. He was a DAAD-fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2013-2014. In 2011, and later, in 2019-2020 he received the Ernő Kállai Scholarship for art historians and art critics. He is the member of the Hungarian section of AICA.