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CEU Alumna Participates International Exhibition at Dom Museum "In the Spirit of Friendship"

July 9, 2025
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The international exhibition at Dom Museum, titled "In the Spirit of Friendship" and dedicated to the theme of friendships and relationships, has opened in September 2024 and will run until the end of August 2025.

CEU Alumna Mayya Kelova, who is also a receipent of Advanced Certificate of Visual Theory and Practice, is part of the exhibition with her photos. 

Please see Mayya's project description below: 

CEU Visions 2025 Photo Exhibition

July 9, 2025
CEU Visions 2025 Opening Event

The Visual Studies Platform at CEU, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, organized a photography exhibition 'CEU Visions 2025' that was held at the CEU Vienna campus. We invited students and staff in a form of an open call to submit their photographic work that sheds light on various aspects of our world, society, and the human experience.

The exhibition at CEU Cafeteria aimed to showcase the diverse perspectives and creative approaches of our talented CEU community.

The opening event was held on May 26, 2025, and the exhibiton was on view from May 27-June 23, 2025.

Safe Journey Welcome Back - Invitation to Exhibition Opening of Magda Kopanska

May 15, 2025
Safe Journey Welcome Back - Invitation to Exhibition Opening of Magda Kopanska

Safe Journey Welcome Back is an art book and a collection of photographs dedicated to Polish workers of Icelandic tourism. The publication is an effect of an ethnographic fieldwork Magda Kopanska conducted in Iceland in summer 2024, during which she worked as a night receptionist and used photography to elucidate the work conditions and life of young migrant workers. The project is concerned with the experience of everyday environment and the sense of temporalities of young Poles employed in Icelandic tourism.

Call for Proposals: ACTIVATE Workshop "Comparative Archival Ecologies"

April 22, 2025
Cameraman at the demonstration against the Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams in Budapest (Hungary), 1988. Blinken OSA Archivum, Tibor Philipp Collection

ACTIVATE, an EU Horizon Europe project approaching social dissent as cultural heritage, announces CfP for its first hybrid workshop Comparative Archival Ecologies: Mapping Alternative Audiovisual Media, at La Contemporaine, in Nanterre, France. Submit your abstract exploring archival strategies related to media activism until May 5, 2025!

Zine-making workshops hosted by Visual Studies Platform at Central European University and organised by Magda Kopańska

April 17, 2025
Zine Making Workshops

Zines are small format publications that derive their name from ‘magazines’ and resemble the form of the classic periodical. Like with magazines, zines are the medium through which different ideas can be presented and their form and content are only limited by the ideas and materials at hand of the creator. Historically, zines were often used as tools for circulating the community’s knowledge and transferring ideas not accessible otherwise.