‘Artpool’
What Will Be Already Exists: Temporalities of Cold War Archives in East-Central Europe and Beyond
Edited Volume of Selected Papers from the Artpool40 Conference In February 2020, we organized an international conference entitled Artpool40 - Active Archives and Art Networks on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the foundation of Artpool and its concurrent relocation to the Central European Research Institute of Art History of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. The study volume related to the conference, edited by Emese …
György Galántai
… alternative art institutions (e.g. the Chapel Studio in Balatonboglár between 1970 and 1973, Artpool since 1979, Newkapolcs Gallery 1991-1995, Artpool P60 1997-2018, Area 51 in Kapolcs from 2015). He received a fellowship from the DAAD in 1988/89 and was guest artist at Arizona State University in 1990. Till 2020 art director of the Artpool Art Research Center and curator of the majority of Artpool's exhibitions and projects and curator of the Artpool website artpool.hu. …
Júlia Klaniczay
Founder, Advisor Cofounder of the illegal Artpool (with artist György Galántai in 1979), and from 1992 till 2020 director of Artpool Art Research Center, operating till 2015 as an NGO and since 2015 as a department of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. From 1977 to 1992 editor responsible of Akadémiai Kiadó, the publishing house of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and from the beginnings till 2020 leader of Artpool's archives …
Mail Art Chro-No-Logy
Mail Art Research Project In 2015, Artpool launched a research project – long needed in an international context as well – with the aim of creating a complex digital historical chronology of mail art, based on Artpool’s continuously expanding collection. The current results of this process can be viewed on the Artpool website, organised by year, starting in 1962 (when Ray Johnson founded the New York Correspondence …
Showcasing Selections From the Collection
Visibility and sharing constitute one of the main pillars of Artpool’s activities. This is also the purpose behind our regular presentations of works, selected along specific themes and displayed in the corridors and the chamber hall. Such showcases allow visitors to experience up close the workings of an “active archive”. For several years now, Artpool has also been a regular participant of the Valley of Arts Festival in Kapolcs. These …