Kinga Lendeczki
Eötvös Loránd University
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- Research topic:
- Artist Roles, Social and Political Engagements in Contemporary Art: A Study of the Contemporary Ukrainian Art Scene
- Period:
- August 2025
Eötvös Loránd University
Aesthetician and cultural worker based in Budapest. She is currently enrolled in the Aesthetics Doctoral Programme at Eötvös Loránd University. She works as a Junior Researcher on the Perspectives in Environmental Aesthetics project, coordinated by the Research Centre for Aesthetics, Nature, and Environment (RCANE). She holds two Master's degrees, one in Communication and Media Studies (2013) and one in Aesthetics (2015), both from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
Her doctoral research focuses on the local characteristics of socially engaged art projects in Ukraine. She is interested in how myths, propaganda, and cultural representations have been constructed from positions of power to serve political
agendas and shape society's cultural imagination. Her thesis explores how artists working with socially engaged art practices reflect on and challenge dominant narratives about the Donbas and the Eastern Ukrainian landscape, and how they seek to redefine the region’s cultural imaginary by introducing new perspectives into the discussion.
At RCANE, her research primarily engages with the representation of the ecological crisis in contemporary art and with artistic reflections on the environmental impact of the war in Ukraine.
During her residency at the Center for Urban History, Kinga will use the Center's resources to work on her dissertation. She will research the depictions of the Eastern Ukrainian landscape in visual and narrative documentation from the beginning of industrialization through the Soviet period. She is particularly interested in urban transformation strategies and utopian project plans that sought to synthesize industrial and natural spaces in Ukraine. She also plans to visit the city’s archives and art institutions.