Gábor Ébli
Moholy-Nagy University, Budapest

Gábor Ébli earned a PhD in Aesthetics from Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest and one in History from the University of Sydney, Australia. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the New School for Social Research, New York and is currently Associate Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Studies, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest. He specializes in research on museums and private collections, which combines theoretical approaches to culture with historical inquiry, particularly in relation to modern and contemporary art. His studies on museums, published in Hungarian in two volumes in Budapest (2005, 2011) address international issues of museum policy, patterns of representation in permanent and temporary exhibitions, as well as the dilemmas of canonizing the art of the 20th and 21st centuries in these public institutions. A more empirical approach to research, one that focuses on the history and the current development of the art market and of private collecting in Hungary in an East European context, underlies the paper that follows here.