Nóra Lukács (*1985, Budapest) is an art historian, cultural manager and independent curator working on the intersection of research, curating as a tool of mediation and civic involvement. She is currently Curator for Contemporary Art at the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (since 2025). She holds a PhD in Art History from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she also taught courses on archival research methods as a guest lecturer. As an independent curator, she recently realized the exhibition and program series Shifting Perspectives. If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag. The Story of a West Berlin Fellowship at the Blinken OSA Archivum in Budapest (with Melanie Roumiguière), and co-curated the series On Seeking at After the Butcher in Berlin. In 2024, she was 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 between Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme, Galerie im Körnerpark, and Akademie der Künste Berlin, conceived together with Melanie Roumiguière. Previously, she worked at K20 | K21 – Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, where she curated exhibitions of Pamela Rosenkranz and Alberto Burri, as well as a collection presentation at K21. As part of the curatorial team of the research project museum global, she contributed to the conference, event series, and exhibition Mikrogeschichten einer ex-zentrischen Moderne at K20, responsible especially for the presentation of Amrita Sher-Gil and Niko Pirosmani. Before relocating to Germany, she worked at the Goethe-Institut in Budapest. In Hungary, she realized curatorial projects 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. She studied Art History and Cultural Studies at Eötvös Lóránd University in Budapest and at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and participated in the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut.
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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