Nóra Lukács (*1985, Budapest) is an art historian, cultural manager and independent curator working on the intersection of research, curation as a mediation tool and civic involvment. Recently workes with private and institutional archives in order to complicate dominant narratives about the recent past for the future. She completed her PhD in Art History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2025, where she taught courses on archival research methods as a guest lecturer. She was 2024 awarded the Justus Bier Preis für Kurator:innen for the research and exhibition project If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag: Art and Internationalisation before the Fall of the Wall, a cooperation project between the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme with the Galerie im Körnerpark and the Akademie der Künste Berlin, which she conceived together with Melanie Roumiguière. Prior to that she was working for the K20 | K21 – Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf where she curated exhibitions of Pamela Rosenkranz, Alberto Burri as well as a collection presentation in K21. As part of the curatorial team of the Kunstsammlung’s research project museum global she worked on the resulting conference, event series and exhibition Mikrogeschichten einer ex-zentrischen Moderne in K20, responsible especially for the presentation of Amrita Sher-Gil, Niko Pirosmani and Mexican Modernism (2018). Before relocating to Germany, Lukács worked in Budapest at the Goethe-Institute. In Hungary, she also realized curatorial projects among others for the Modem Art Center in Debrecen and for Igor Metropol Budapest, an independent art association, of which she is a founding and board member until today. She studied Art History, Aesthetics and Cultural Studies in Budapest at the Eötvös Lóránd University and at the Humbodt-Universität Berlin. 2013/14 she participated at Ashkal Alwan the Home Workspace Program in Beirut, Lebanon.
Her research and exhibition projects have been awarded grants and prices like ▪ 2024: Justus-Bier-Preis für Kurator:innen, with Melanie Roumiguière ▪ 2020–(2023): Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium des Landes Berlin, PhD Scholarship of the Federal State of Berlin ▪ 2018: Goethe-Institut research trip grant for curators from Germany to Mexico and to Georgia ▪ 2016: Deutsches Forum der Kunstgeschichte, study trip grant to Russia ▪ 2013: ICA-Yeravan Summer School for Curators with ECF Step Beyond Grant, Armenia ▪ 2009: Erasmus Mundus Internship Program to Berlin ▪ 2007: Erasmus Scholarship to the the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ▪ 2006: Peggy Guggenheim Studentship Program Grant, Venice, Italy.
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