‘70s’
Resonances
Regional and Transregional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 1970s Project leader: Emese Kürti, Zsuzsa László The project explores cultural transfers between artists, art professionals, and intellectuals of the region in the ’70s to compose a new, transnational, and dialogical history for neo-avant-garde art of Central-East Europe. Running from 2021 to 2024, this collaborative research project will first take the form of a traveling four-chapter …
Anita Voleszák-Szabó
… Catholic University as an art historian, specialising in the hyper-realist art of the 1960s and 1970s, and went on to study art management at MOME. She worked as an art assistant at Csók István Gallery, where she was responsible for the administration of exhibitions and contributed to the organisation of temporary exhibitions. In 2021, she joined the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Center (ADK) team, where she is in charge of the overall administration and organisation.
Júlia Klaniczay
… or author of several articles; researcher in the alternative art forms and activities of the 1970s and 1980s. From 1976 participant or assistant of many art projects concieved by György Galántai and realized in the framework of Artpool.
The digital "Attic Archive"
… self-historicisation projects, reflecting on the changing social and cultural conditions of the 1970s-2020s within which the artist operated. As the archive is now dispersed across Scotland, Hungary and Ireland, the project seeks to bring together archivists and curators from key collections to test the possibility of establishing a shared online, open-source platform. Functioning as an archival/curatorial space where the historical threads of the Attic Archive can be traced back, the …
Artist Archives of the Future
… a prominent artist and theorist of the Polish neo-avantgarde, represents the art network of the 1970s and 1980s. Similarly to – and in part overlapping with – Artpool, it has a significant collection of mail art, including works by several Hungarian artists (e.g. Sándor Pinczehelyi, László Beke, Gábor Attalai, György Galántai, Gábor Tóth and Dóra Maurer). The outcome of this collaboration will be on view for the general public in November 2024, at the Platán Gallery in …