Berlin
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CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION

2019-2024




2013-2016





2014 / w

2012-2015


2009-2013

2019-2024









2013-2016








2014 / w


2012-2015



2009-2013

PhD, Theaterwissenschaft Institute, Freie Universität, Berlin, DE
El Kazovszkij Revisited: LGBT and Queer Themes in Visual Arts in a Socialist and Post-Socialist context.
Supervisor: Prof. Doris Kolesch, Prof. Dr. Judit Takács

Master of Arts in Art History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, HU
The Art Practice of Gábor Altorjay in the Federal Republic in Germany 1967-’71
Supervisor: Annamária Szőke. Graduated with honors.

Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Universität, Berlin, DE

Mérei College for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, HU

Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts , Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, HU
Major in Art History, minor in Aesthetics, Graduated with honors.

PhD, Theaterwissenschaft Institute, Freie Universität, Berlin, DE
El Kazovszkij Revisited: LGBT and Queer Themes in Visual Arts in a Socialist and Post-Socialist context.
Supervisor: Prof. Doris Kolesch, Prof. Dr. Judit Takács

Master of Arts in Art History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, HU
The Art Practice of Gábor Altorjay in the Federal Republic in Germany 1967-’71
Supervisor: Annamária Szőke. Graduated with honors.

Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Universität, Berlin, DE

Mérei College for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, HU

Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts , Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, HU
Major in Art History, minor in Aesthetics, Graduated with honors.

SCHOLARSHIPS & PRIZES

2025



2024 Sept-Oct


2024 Feb & Apr

2023

2023

2020


2019-2020



2019

2017

2015/w

2014/w


2014

2012

2025


2024 Sept-Oct



2024 Feb & Apr


2023





2020




2019







2019



2017



2015/w


2014/w



2014


2012

Deutche Historische Institute, Prague, Research Fellowship

Finno-Ugrin Queer Networks, Kitchen Lab Tarvo, Helsinki

Open Society Archives, Research fellowship

Research Fellowship, Art History Insitute, Warsaw University, PL
Visegrad Fund

Research Residency, MeetFactory, CZ

Horváth Art Foundation, Art Critics Prize 2022, shortlisted

AICA Critics Prize, 2023, shortlisted

LCCA Summer School: Negotiating Gender in the Baltics and Eastern Europe, LV

Gender Politics and the Art of European Socialist States, traveling seminar, Getty Foundation, Adam Mickiewicz Universisty - West University of Timisoara - University of Zagreb, PL, HR, RO

East Art Mags: Bratislava, residency for ECE Art Journalists, SL

East Art Mags:: Prague, residency for ECE Art Journalists,, CZ

Erasmus+ Scholarship, povvera, Berlin, DE

Erasmus Scholarship, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, DE

Academic Scholarship of the Eötvös Loránd University, HU

Stiftung Aktion Österreich-Ungarn Sommeruniversität, HU

Open Society Archives, Research fellowship

Research Fellowship, Art History Insitute, Warsaw University, PL /Visegrad Fund

Research Residency MeetFactory, CZ

Horváth Art Foundation, Art Critics Prize 2022, shortlisted

AICA Critics Prize, 2023, shortlisted

LCCA Summer School: Negotiating Gender in the Baltics and Eastern Europe, LV

Gender Politics and the Art of European Socialist States, traveling seminar, Getty Foundation, Adam Mickiewicz Universisty - West University of Timisoara - University of Zagreb, PL, HR, RO

East Art Mags: Bratislava, residency for ECE Art Journalists, SL

East Art Mags:: Prague, residency for ECE Art Journalists,, CZ

Erasmus+ Scholarship, povvera, Berlin, DE

Erasmus Scholarship, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, DE

Academic Scholarship of the Eötvös Loránd University, HU

Stiftung Aktion Österreich-Ungarn Sommeruniversität, HU

TEACHING

2019-2020

Berlin School of Business and Innovation, post-graduate programecturing Study Skills, Research Methods I., II. and III.

Berlin School of Business and Innovation, post-graduate programecturing Study Skills, Research Methods I., II. and III.

AFFILIATIONS

2024-

2023-

2017-

Studio of the Young Artist's Association

AICA Hungary

National Association of Hungarian Journalists

Studio of the Young Artist's Association

AICA Hungary

National Association of Hungarian Journalists

CURATORIAL PRACTICE

2024

2022


2021--

2019-2024

2018


2017

Hajnal Szolga & Ilka Demény, Foton, Budapest

Into the Out: Anthropocene Utopies, Queer Dystopies, Backhaus Project, Berlin

@TRASHOFKOZTER @IG

Ladyfest Budapest annual feminist showcase festival

Popup Kino, Gesammelte Filme von Altor Jay mit Ausstellung, povvera, Berlin

Gábor Altorjay: Wanted Pictures. Off-Biennale, P60, Budapest

Hajnal Szolga & Ilka Demény, Foton, Budapest

Into the Out: Anthropocene Utopies, Queer Dystopies, Backhaus Project, Berlin

@TRASHOFKOZTER @IG

Ladyfest Budapest annual feminist showcase festival

Popup Kino, Gesammelte Filme von Altor Jay mit Ausstellung, povvera, Berlin

Gábor Altorjay: Wanted Pictures. Off-Biennale, P60, Budapest

SELECTED CONFERENCES & TALKS

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2023








2022


2021













2018



2017

2014

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2022



2021





















2018



2017

2014

Nov 8. Queer Censorships in East Central European Cinema History, Mezipatra: Queer Film Festival, Prague

Oct 31 Memory Politics or Politics of Statues, guest lecture, Central European University, Budapest

Oct 28 Imagined Queer Censorships in the post-Stalinist socialist ECE: Methodological Experiments, Warsaw University

Sept 17 The 1980s Budapest Queer ‘Underworld’ Under the Spotlight, Queer Urban Underworlds in European State Socialism, Deutsches Historisches Institute Warschau-Praha

May 2 Queer In/Visibilities in State-Socialist East Central European Cultural Fields, MeetFactory 

Misappropriation of Public Space in Hungary, 2010-2023, Kritikus kúltúra / A kultúra kritikus helyzetben,11 December

Nov Queering Art History vs Queer Art History, guest lecture, Hungarian Academy of Arts, HU

June Who owns the public space? guest lecture, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU

Queer Camp in the Communist Camp? KEMKI:A bomlás virágai, Budapest, 1. March

The Orbanian statue craze. A quantitative approach, Manufacturing the past, European University, St.-Petersburg, 2-4 November

Benedek-Simon: State capture of Romani ethnic media in Hungary, IAMRC, 11-15 July

Quantity besides Quality? The Hungarian statue-craze (2010-2020), Contested Histories: creating and critiquing public monuments and memorials in a new age of iconoclasm’, Swansea University, 28-29 June

Panelist on Green European Journal Spring Issue launch, Spring Council of the European Greens, 28. May

Queer (In)Visibilities in El Kazovszkij’s Performance Practices in State-Socialist
Hungary, Left Performance Histories, nGbK, Berlin, 02.26.02.

Fidaesthetics, Klinika, Prague, 22.04.

2014 Feb-Jul organizing Sex and Socialism, Lecture Series, Eötvös Loránd University, HU

Nov 8. Queer Censorships in East Central European Cinema History, Mezipatra: Queer Film Festival, Prague

Oct 31 Memory Politics or Politics of Statues, guest lecture, Central European University, Budapest

Oct 28 Imagined Queer Censorships in the post-Stalinist socialist ECE: Methodological Experiments, Warsaw University

Sept 17 The 1980s Budapest Queer ‘Underworld’ Under the Spotlight, Queer Urban Underworlds in European State Socialism, Deutsches Historisches Institute Warschau-Praha

May 2 Queer In/Visibilities in State-Socialist East Central European Cultural Fields, MeetFactory 

Misappropriation of Public Space in Hungary, 2010-2023, Kritikus kúltúra / A kultúra kritikus helyzetben,11 December

Nov Queering Art History vs Queer Art History, guest lecture, Hungarian Academy of Arts, HU

June Who owns the public space? guest lecture, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU

Queer Camp in the Communist Camp? KEMKI:A bomlás virágai, Budapest, 1. March

The Orbanian statue craze. A quantitative approach, Manufacturing the past, European University, St.-Petersburg, 2-4 November

Benedek-Simon: State capture of Romani ethnic media in Hungary, IAMRC, 11-15 July

Quantity besides Quality? The Hungarian statue-craze (2010-2020), Contested Histories: creating and critiquing public monuments and memorials in a new age of iconoclasm’, Swansea University, 28-29 June

Panelist on Green European Journal Spring Issue launch, Spring Council of the European Greens, 28. May

Queer (In)Visibilities in El Kazovszkij’s Performance Practices in State-Socialist
Hungary, Left Performance Histories, nGbK, Berlin, 02.26.02.

Fidaesthetics, Klinika, Prague, 22.04.

2014 Feb-Jul organizing Sex and Socialism, Lecture Series, Eötvös Loránd University, HU

SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Gábor Bándis Werke und Farbentheorie, monograph, Hamburg: Kriesel, (Forthcoming, Mathias Hans Verlag, Hamburg 2025)

Benedek & Szőke: "Welt ohne Herz" The Altorjay Oeuvre, monograph, (Forthcoming: Budapest: Gondolat, 2025)

SZVSZ, Hévíz, 07.10.2024

Bleyer-Simon & Benedek: State capture of Romani ethnic media in Hungary, European Journal of Communication, 

The Grafting Solidarities - From the Factories to the Fields, Art Margins Online, 11.09.2024

Limbo of Orbán’s Queer Censorship, Green European Journal, July 2024.

Bleyer-Simon, K., Benedek, K., & Racz, T.  (2024, June 18). Romani Ethnic Media in Hungary. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication.
https://oxfordre.com/communication/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228613-e-1331.

Canon vs. History. Re/Opening the DAAD Archives (review: If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag: Art and Internationalism Before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, daadgalerie, n.b.k, Galerie im Körnerpark, 09.09.2023-14.01.2024) Art Margins Online, 05.03.2024

Circulation of Queer Ideas in State Socialist Hungarian People’s Republic. Ikonotheka 32 2022: 143-158. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.31338/2657-6015ik.32.8.

Genderphobia in Eastern Europe: Myths and Realities. Interview with Judit Takács, Green European Journal, April 2022

Opportunism Not Ideology: Fidesz's Campaign Against Sexual Minorities, Green European Journal, July 2021 Referendums in Hungary: Confirmation Bias, Green European Journal, May 2021

New Stages, new Strategies for Female Visibility in the Hungarian Underground Music Scene. In: Female Music Practice, MusicaFemina International Symposion, eds: Suchy–Reba–Szálka–Wackernagel, Verlag der Apfel, Vienna, 2020.

Básthy–Benedek: Kulturkampf or Kulturchaos? – New (dis)orders in contemporary Hungarian cultural politics, FIELD: A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism, University of California,Febr, 2019

Queer (In)Visibilities in El Kazovszkij’s Performance Practices in State-Socialist Hungary, in: Left Performance Histories, Recollecting Artistic Practices in Eastern Europe, ed: Astrid Hackel-Andrej Mirčev- Judit Bodor, nGbK, 2018. pp. 158-159.

The Roma mobilize their own knowledge: this is a paradigm shift. Interview with Tímea Junghus PoliticalCritique, 17.10.2017

Sokol's aesthetic in Prague's Center of Queer Memory, ArtPortal-Artalk.cz, 20.06.2017

Kommunista homoszexualitás. Új tendenciák a közép-kelet-európai szexualitástörténet kutatásában,[Communist Homosexuality. New Research Tendencies in the Central and Eastern European History of Sexuality], TranzitBlog, 23.02.2017

Altorjay Gábor, lexicon entry as corrective extension of Kortárs Magyar Művészeti Lexikon I-III. [Lexicon of Contemporary Hungarian Art] 1993-2001, ed: Péter Fitz, ArtPortal, 2016.

Memorial and Green Campus, in: Carved names – Remembering Without Memories ed: Kállay, EszterTeri Szücs, Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Humanities, Budapest, 2015. pp. 187-189.

Homophobia and homophobic violence in South Africa and its representation in contemporary art, Queer (in-)visibilities in the art of Africa and beyond, Freie Universität, Berlin, 2015

Benedek–Szőke: Gábor Altorjay’s Biographical Chronology, Welt ohne Herz, ACB Gallery, Budapest, 2015

LANGUAGES: Hungarian (M) English (C2) German (B2)

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