Publications

Co-editor and contributor with Max Ryynänen
Trying Out New Paths in Aesthetics
Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2025
ISBN: 978 900 4747 388

More information on the website of Brill .

​ “ Curing and Caring through Art: Memory and Memorials in Times of Changing Interpretation of the Contested Past”
Chapter in the volume:
Tracking Global Wokeism , ed. Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2025), 147-160

More information on the website of Brill .

Zhuofei Wang and Zoltán Somhegyi (eds.)
Studi di estetica 30 (2004/3)
Leading theme: Contingency in Global Aesthetic and Artist Practices

Link of the volume

“Ruins Around Caspar David Friedrich. Changing Pictorial Aspects of Decaying Heritage”
Chapter in the volume:
Aesthetic Communication in Europe 1700-1850
eds. Gergely Fórizs, Piroska Balogh, Katalin Bartha-Kovács, Botond Csuka (Berlin-Boston, De Gruyter, 2025), 123-134

More information on the website of De Gruyter .

“ Nostalgia and Ruins”
Chapter in the volume:
The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia
eds. Tobias Becker and Dylan Trigg (London-New York: Routledge, 2025), 427-439

More information on the website of Routledge.

Co-editor and contributor with Lisa Giombini
The Routledge Companion to The Philosophy of Architectural Reconstruction
London-New York: Routledge, 2024
ISBN: 978 1 032 36831 3

More information on the website of Routledge .

Co-editor and contributor with Max Ryynänen
Aesthetic Theory Across the Disciplines
Lanham-Boulder-New York-London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023
ISBN: 978 1 5381 7659 7 ​

More information on the website of Rowman & Littlefield .

“ The use and usefulness of unused spaces: Neglected urban environment in changing perspectives,”
Chapter in the volume:
Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life. Methodologies, History and New Directions ,
eds. Lisa Giombini and Adrián Kvokačka (London-New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), 116-130

More information on the website of Bloomsbury .

“Painting Wind: On Some Sublime Aspects of Art and Nature,”
Chapter in the volume:
The Imagery of Wind , ed. Junko Ninagawa (Tokyo: Sangensha, 2023; ISBN: 978-4-88303-578-6), 203-217 ( in Japanese, with the original English text on the Publisher’s website )

“From Ruins to the Ruins of Ruins. The Challenging Afterlife of Architectural Dereliction” ​
Chapter in the volume:
Ruinen und Vergessene Orte. Materialität im Verfall – Nachnutzungen – Umdeutungen , eds. Joachim Otto Habeck and Frank Schmitz (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2023), 45-55

The whole volume is open access, and can be downloaded from the website of Transcript Verlag .

Zoltán Somhegyi: “Conversation with Sinisa Vlajkovic,” ​  in Sinisa Vlajkovic: Anachronicles 1995-2020 ​ (Belgrade, 2021), 25-37

Zoltán Somhegyi:
Reviewing the Past. The Presence of Ruins
London-New York: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020
ISBN: 978 1 78660 761 4

More information on the website of Rowman & Littlefield International.

Co-editor and contributor with Max Ryynänen
Aesthetics in Dialogue. Applying Philosophy of Art in a Global World
Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020
ISBN: 978 3 631 79218 6

More information on the website of Peter Lang.

“The (Future of the) Ruins in the United Arab Emirates”
Chapter in the volume:
Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins, Monuments, and Memorials
Edited by Jeanette Bicknell, Jennifer Judkins and Carolyn Korsmeyer
New York – London: Routledge, 2020 166-174

More information on the website of Routledge.

Zoltán Somhegyi (ed.)
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics 59 (2020/4)
Leading theme: Revisiting Historical Intersections in Art and Aesthetics ​

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“Mercury. The Works of Martin C. Herbst,” ​  in Mercury . ed. Martin C. Herbst (Wien: 2020), 161-177

Max Ryynänen – Zoltán Somhegyi
Learning from Decay
Essays on the Aesthetics of Architectural Dereliction and Its Consumption

Berlin: Peter Lang, 2018
ISBN: 978-3-631-74404-8

More information on the website of Peter Lang .

​Zoltán Somhegyi (ed.)
Retracing the past. Historical continuity in aesthetics from a global perspective
International Yearbook of Aesthetics 19, 2017
Published by the International Association for Aesthetics
Santa Cruz, California, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-692-04826-9

Download the book from the website of the International Association for Aesthetics .

Mannequins. Catalogue of Tor Seidel’s photographs. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, 2018, co-authored with Richard Weihe ​(in English and German)

“The big wave” Catalogue of André Wagner at e.artis contemporary Chemnitz, Germany, 2017 (in English and German)

“Passing By…” Catalogue of Aida Mahmudova’s exhibition at Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 2015 (in English)

Catalogue of the “Cornucopia” Staff and Faculty Exhibition, curated by Zoltán Somhegyi at the University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirat  es, 2015 (in English and Arabic)

Catalogue of the exhibition of Siniša Vlajković, curated by Zoltán Somhegyi at the CUBO Centro Unipol di Bologna, Italy, 2014 (i  n English  and Italian)  

Catalogue of Çetin Erokay, Izmir, 2014 (in English and Turkish)

Catalogue of the group exhibition of the Society of Hungarian Painters, Budapest, 2013 (in English and Hungarian)

Essay in the catalogue of the exhibition “Hungarian Art Photography in the New Millennium”, Budapest, 2013 ​(in English and Hungarian)

Catalogue of István Sinkó, Budapest, 2013 (in English and Hungarian)

Sguardi sulle città in trasformazione, Bologna, 2012 (in Italian, an essay in the conference proceedings)

Contemporary Art Market: Passion? Speculation? Budapest, 2012 (in English, an essay in the conference proceedings)

Classical Art Collectors, Budapest 2012 (in Hungarian)

An essay on Franz Wibmer, 2011 (in German and Italian)

Description of the works of the McSwiny-series, 2011 (in Italian)

“The Imprenetrable Beyond”. The landscape painting in German Romanticism. Budapest, 2011 ​(in Hungarian, with English summary)

Contemporary Art Collectors, Budapest, 2011 (in Hungarian)

The Szalóky-Collection. Budapest, 2011 (in English and Hungarian)

Catalogue of Ádám Magyar. Budapest, 2011 (in English and Hungarian)

Catalogue of Bibekananda Santra. Balatonfüred, 2011 (in English and Hungarian)

Catalogue of the group exhibition, Villa Guadagnini, Bologna, 2011 (in Italian and English, co-author)

Art Collections of Hungarian Public Institutions, 2010 (in Hungarian)

Catalogue of Per Bak Jensen, Torben Eskerod, Trine Sondergaard and Ebbe Stub Wittrup. Budapest, 2010 ​(in English and Hungarian)

Contemporary Art Collectors, 2010 (in Hungarian)

Catalogue of Ákos Bánki. Budapest, 2010 (in English and Hungarian)

Contemporary Art Galleries in Hungary, 2009

Artists’ Books. Libero libri Essegi – Ravenna, 2009 (in Italian)

Catalogue of István Nádler. Budapest, 2009 (in English and Hungarian)

Contemporary Art Collectors, 2009 (in Hungarian, co-author)

Catalogue of István Halmi-Horváth. Budapest, 2009 (in English and Hungarian)

Catalogue of Károly Halász. Kalocsa-Paks, 2009 (in Hungarian, co-author)

Hungarian Art in International Collections, 2008 (in Hungarian, co-author)

The Ways of Landscape. Walkabouts Around a Genre. Budapest, 2008 (in Hungarian) 

Catalogue of István Nádler, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2008 (in English, German and Hungarian, co-author)

“Contemporary Art Collectors”, 2008 (in Hungarian, co-author)

Catalogue of László Alföldi, Budapest, 2008 (in Hungarian, co-author)

Catalogue of Maria Cristina Pacelli. Bologna, 2008 (in Italian and English) 

Catalogue of Antal Vásárhelyi. Budapest, 2008 (in English, Italian and Hungarian) 

Catalogue of Éva T. Horváth. Budapest, 2008 (in English and Hungarian)

Catalogue of Ferencz Tóth. Budapest, 2007 (in English and Hungarian, co-author)