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Liget Gallery Archive

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Liget Gallery is a small non-profit gallery operated by the Cultural House of the 14th district of Budapest. Since its founding in 1983, it has arranged approximately 450 exhibitions and events in the gallery and elsewhere. In the 1980s, it started to present solo shows of works by radical artists from the region and exhibit new tendencies within the local scene. The archive documents these activities.

Location

  • Budapest Ajtósi Dürer sor 5, Hungary 1146
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Languages

  • Hungarian

Name of collection

  • The Archive of Liget Gallery

Provenance and cultural activities

Description of content

  • The archive of the Liget Gallery contains documentation (photos, videos, texts) on the exhibitions and projects organized by the gallery (from 1983 to the present). The collection is a part of the professional work of the Gallery.

Content

  • photos: 1000-

Stakeholder(s) of the collection

Geographical scope of recent operation

  • international

Founder(s)

Date of founding

  • 1983

Place of founding

Collector(s)

Access type

  • completely open to the public

Publications

  • Várnagy, Tibor (ed.). Liget Galéria 1983–1990. XIV. kerületi Művelődési Ház, Budapest, 1990

    Várnagy, Tibor (ed.): Liget Galéria 1990/1995, Cserepesház, Budapest, 1996.

Author(s) of this page

  • Beöthy, Balázs

References

Várnagy, Tibor, interview by Beöthy, Balázs, May 11, 2016. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection

Last edited on: 2018-03-05 22:22:05