Szakmai hiánypótlás, turisztikai városfejlesztés vagy állami reprezentáció?
Professional Completion, Touristic City Planning or State Representation?

Summary/Abstract: Badly neglected under Communism, the representation of contemporary art in museums over East-Central Europe has markedly improved since the fall of the Iron Curtain. With the number of independent new states multiplied in this region during the past quarter-century, there is today a variety of national canonising institutions of contemporary art. However, the professional level of these collections and their presentation, either as part of large monolithic national art galleries or in separate museums of contemporary art, show vast differences. This paper looks in a comparative approach at the diverging motifs, ranging from international politics to local urban development, and the various solutions that the nearly two dozen countries between the Baltic region and the Balkans have adopted for placing contemporary art in old or new museums.

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