‘Artpool’
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”. Fanzine Anatomy – Alternative Hungarian Publications on Music and Politics from the Artpool Collection, …
The Digital "Attic Archive"
… referred to as DATA (Daily Action Time Archive), was launched in 1980 and is now part of the Artpool Collection. Founded in Dundee, Scotland by artist Pete Horobin in 1975, the Attic Archive grew out of four separate ten-year-long self-historicization 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 …
Presence in Kapolcs
Artpool has been organizing exhibitions in Kapolcs since 1991. The continuation of the program of the Newkapolcs Gallery, operating between 1991 and 1995 was taken over by the Galántai House (K55) in 2009, and from 2015 on Artpool's presence in Kapolcs was expanded with the venue " Area 51 ". The visibility of Artpool's program in Kapolcs was strengthened by the Kapolcs Art Days …
György Cséka
Head of Department György Cséka graduated from the Hungarian Language and Literature program of Uzhhorod National University in 1994, and from the Aesthetics Program in the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE) in 1999, where he also pursued his doctoral studies from 2000 to 2003. In 2012, he earned a BA degree in Library and Information Science at ELTE’s Faculty of …
Resonances
Language Games, selection from the Artpool collection - exhibition