‘archives’
Artist Archives of the Future
Cooperation with the Andrzej Partum Archives Within the framework of the collaboration “Artist Archives of the Future”, the Andrzej Partum Archive (managed by Muzeum Sztuki) and Artpool staff are conducting comparative research in one another’s respective archives. The Andrzej Partum Archive (1938—2002), named after a prominent artist and theorist of the Polish neo-avantgarde, represents the art network of the 1970s and …
What Will Be Already Exists: Temporalities of Cold War Archives in East-Central Europe and Beyond
… 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 Kürti and Zsuzsa László, is published by Transcript, one of Europe's leading independent scientific publishers. …
Enigma 103: (An)archives
Collaboration with the Hungarian art periodical The Enigma 103, (An)archives is releasing eight engaging papers from the Artpool40 Conference in Hungarian translation. The essays discuss motivations behind building and running artist archives, the alternative histories they generate, and the challenges of their sustainability, institutionalization, transformations, and critical interpretations. Editor: Csilla Markója Guest editors: Emese Kürti and Zsuzsa …
Artpool40 – Active Archives and Art Networks
… by bringing together scholars and practitioners interested in transnational research on artist archives, progressive curatorial and museological practices, and the historiography of Cold War art scenes and networks. The conference takes Artpool’s 1979 concept of an “ Active Archive ” as a starting point to explore its contemporary interpretations and applications, and its similarities with and differences from other artist archives. As Artpool’s founder György Galántai puts it, an …
László Beke Archives
The László Beke Archives contains the correspondence of art historian, art writer, and theoretician László Beke (1944–2022) with Hungarian and international (especially Central and Eastern European) (neo-)avantgarde artists over several decades, as well as his documents, art projects, manuscripts, photographs, slides and printed publications. Of these, the so-called Imagination/Idea project conceived by …