Júliusz Huth (b. 1982 in Arad, Romania) is an art historian and art critic based in Budapest. He is currently a PhD candidate at Eötvös Lóránd University and a researcher at the Central European Research Institute – Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (KEMKI).
As a researcher of the KEMKI his research mainly engages with the history of art criticism and of the art institutions of the 1980s in Hungary. His PhD research deals with the political and economic changes around 1989 and their effects on the field of visual or exhibited art, and especially with the post-1989 history of the main art organizations of real socialism. The research focuses on the conflicts between the Budapest Kunsthalle, which became the main exhibition space for contemporary art, and of the Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists, which represented the artists who had lost positions in the new system.
Besides his academic activity Júliusz is also active as an art critic and is a member of the Hungarian Section of AICA. In the recent years he was writing provocative critiques and analyses about contemporary art and contemporary art’s possibilities in Hungary linked together with the actual cultural political context in Hungary and the global late-capitalist conditions.