Károli Gáspár University, Budapest, Hungary
Zoltán Somhegyi is Associate Professor of Art History at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary. He has a Ph.D. in aesthetics and a Habilitation (venia legendi) in philosophy. As a researcher, he specialises in eighteenth-nineteenth century art and theory, with a particular focus on the aesthetics of ruins, of decay and of landscape representations, as well as on environmental aesthetics, while his other fields of interest are contemporary fine arts and art criticism. He is the former Secretary-General (2016-2022) and the current Website Editor of the International Association for Aesthetics (IAA), Deputy Secretary-General of the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH, since 2023), and a consultant of Art Market Budapest: International Contemporary Art Fair. His recent books are Reviewing the Past. The Presence of Ruins (London – New York: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020) and The Routledge Companion to The Philosophy of Architectural Reconstruction (London – New York: Routledge, 2024; co-edited with Lisa Giombini).
www.zoltansomhegyi.com