‘art archives’
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Dezső Korniss), 2022
… on hollow structural section overall dimensions: 47 x 73.5 cm The motifs highlighted by the artist are from the mosaic (1967) covering the bottom of the Esperanto Fountain located in front of the Rác Thermal Baths, in the Tabán area of the First District. The black and white photographs showing Dezső Korniss’s (1908–1984) work (KEMKI ADK Inv. No.: 25001/2014/Korniss Dezső/1-3) belong to the public sculpture register, which comprises part of the 500 metres of documents that originally …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Mihály Munkácsy), 2022
… dimensions: 94 x 50 cm The estate of Mihály MUNKÁCSY (1844–1900) constitutes the oldest part—and perhaps one of the most valuable portions—of the KEMKI ADK collection. In addition to the documents, it also contains his relics: his furniture, the plaster cast of his right hand, his palette, his mourning ribbon, and the silver laurel wreath given to Mihály Munkácsy in 1882 by his fellow artists along with the National Hungarian Society of Fine Arts (KEMKI ADK Inv. No. 4003/1941)—which, …
Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts
The Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts, established in 1963 under the supervision of the Ministry of Education, was one of the most important executive institutions of cultural policy before the regime change. Essentially functioning as a bureau of art censorship, the Lectorate had a definitive role in regulating the Hungarian art scene until 1989. From 1963 to 1990, the Lectorate had authority in virtually every field of fine …
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 …
Artpool40 – Active Archives and Art Networks
International Conference of the Artpool Art Research Center The international conference celebrates 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. It aims to map the cultural-political-historical contexts of Artpool's activity by bringing together scholars and practitioners interested in …