Ms. Zsófia Farkas

Professional Background

Zsófia Farkas is a PhD candidate in art history at Eötvös Loránd University, where she also received a master’s degree in art history. Her research focuses on Hungarian art after 1945, with a primary emphasis on the memory of the Holocaust in the oeuvres of female artists. Currently she researches the narrative graphic representations of the Holocaust made between 1944 and 1948. In 2023, she published a comprehensive book on the subject, entitled Eyewitnesses: Depictions of Trauma from the Collection of the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives.

Currently, Ms. Farkas serves as the chief curator of the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives and is the founder of the Síp12 Gallery and Community Space. She has curated numerous exhibitions focused on the Jewish identity of 20th-century visual artists and on contemporary Jewish communities. She previously served as a curator at the MODEM Modern and Contemporary Arts Centre in Debrecen, as well as at several Jewish institutions, including the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest, Centropa Budapest, and the Jewish Historical Museum (Jewish Cultural Quarter) in Amsterdam.

Fellowship Research

While at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Randolph and Elizabeth Braham Fellow, Zsófia Farkas will conduct research on artwork created by Hungarian eyewitnesses who documented their experiences of persecution during the Holocaust. Her work aims to enhance the understanding and recognition of artists who emigrated after the Holocaust, whose contributions remain underrepresented in their country of origin. Farkas’s research seeks to contextualize Hungarian Jewish Holocaust remembrance within an international framework, enabling deeper layers of analysis. She will utilize the Museum’s “Eyewitness Accounts of the Holocaust Period” collection, along with other resources and scholarly literature on visual memory related to the Holocaust, as key components of her research.

Residency Period: January 1, 2026–August 31, 2026