Gábor Dobó

Principal Investigator

Gábor Dobó is a literary historian focusing on East-Central European avant-garde culture and the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project The Cultural Vanguard of Workers’ Movements: A Social History of East-Central European Avant-Garde between the Two Wars (ProletGard) at the Kassák Foundation, Budapest.
His work bridges workers’ movements, everyday cultural praxis, and experimental print cultures. He is a research fellow at the Kassák Museum–PIM–MNMKK, serves on the committee of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit), and is the editor of the digital critical edition of the correspondence between avant-garde artists Lajos Kassák and Jolán Simon, as well as co-editor of Cannibalizing the Canon: Dada Techniques in East-Central Europe (with Oliver A. I. Botar, Irina Denischenko and Merse Pál Szeredi,, Brill, 2024). A former Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute, he has studied in Budapest, Florence, and Angers.

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Borka Csejdy

Project Manager

Borka Csejdy is a curator and cultural manager.
She graduated in 2019 from the Curatorial Studies program at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, where her thesis examined the impact of gentrification on local communities. In 2020, she obtained her law degree from the Faculty of Law at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, focusing her master’s thesis on the copyright protection of film works. Her practice explores the community-building and discourse-shaping role of art. She is particularly interested in how cultural formats, such as exhibitions, festivals, and participatory events, can serve as platforms for knowledge sharing, dialogue, and collective collaboration. Her curatorial and organizational work engages with processes that reflect on social phenomena through artistic tools, foster shared experiences, and cultivate active, inclusive communities. Since March 2025, she has been the program curator of OFF-Biennále Budapest. From October 2025, she has worked as a Project Manager at Hangvető Kft., a cultural NGO. Within the ProletGard ERC project, she is responsible for project management and the coordination of the professional program.

Merse Pál Szeredi

Museum Curator

Merse Pál Szeredi is an art historian,director of the Kassák Museum, Budapest, and curator at the Kassák Foundation.
His research focuses on interwar Hungarian modernist and avant-garde literature and visual arts, with an emphasis on international networks. His papers are published in Hungarian and international periodicals, edited volumes and exhibition catalogues. He curated and co-curated several exhibitions at the Kassák Museum, the Petőfi Literary Museum, and the Virág Judit Gallery. Currently, he is working on a digital critical edition of Kassák and Jolán Simon’s correspondence between 1908 and 1928 at the Kassák Museum (with Sára Bagdi and Gábor Dobó). Most recently, he co-edited the volume Cannibalizing the Canon: Dada Techniques in East-Central Europe (with Oliver A. I. Botar, Irina Denischenko and Gábor Dobó, Brill, 2024). Szeredi is the museum curator in the ProletGard ERC project, responsible for preparing and managing the planned travelling exhibition based on the research project’s results.

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