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György Tóth: Portraits (1985–1991)
Rudolf Balogh Prize-winning photographer György Tóth is a prominent figure of contemporary Hungarian photography. Over the last thirty years his signature slow shutter studies of the human body in motion have been the central component of his oeuvre. Before the 1990s, Tóth was still engaged in documentary photography. Portraits 1985–1991 is an important series from this period in several …
Postcards of Judit Reigl
In 2021 forty-seven postcards were gifted to our collection. They were written between spring 1950 and February 1963 by Judit Reigl and addressed to her parents and—after her mother’s death—to her stepfather. Although the postcards often contain references to long letters she had written, as far as we know, only these short messages have survived from this early period of Judit Reigl’s life. …
TÓTalJOY Prize
… vibrant tools of contemporary art, had the capacity to intervene in the life and operations of the archives through collaborative methods, and by transcending the archives’ classical functions and theories. Katarina Šević’s project proposal entitled Storm in the Archive also received special recognition. The winning project and the resulting exhibition, which took place in spring 2023, explored a particular cross-section of Artpool’s collection that utilised the art documents held …
Júlia Klaniczay
… house of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and from the beginnings till 2020 leader of Artpool's archives and editor in chief of all Artpool's publications: samizdats magazines, books, printed or online; translator 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.