‘Artpool Art Research Center’
György Galántai
Founder, Art-researcher Born in 1941 in Bikács (Hungary) Graduated as a painter in 1967 from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. Multimedia artist, art researcher. His view of art shows close ties with the spirit of Fluxus, which rejected the creation of traditional art works and defined the task of art as inventing conceptual objects, creative situations, as well as permanent creative and …
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 and …
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 …
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 …
The Digital "Attic Archive"
A Case Study for Open Source Approaches to Artist Archives Curating the Digital Attic Archive, a two-year Research Network Award project funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, explores the work and legacy of the Attic Archive within a framework of international collaboration. Part of the Attic Archive, referred to as DATA (Daily Action Time Archive), was launched in 1980 and is now part of the Artpool Collection. Founded …