‘art archives’
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 …
Emese Kürti
Deputy Director for Research, Head of Department, Art Historian From 2018 to 2021, she was a researcher at the Artpool Art Research Center, then Head of Department from 2021 to 2022. She is currently Head of the Department of Research and Deputy Director of Research at the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI). Previously, she was a lecturer at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and Central European University …
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 …
Péter Korniss Archive
… one of the most influential figures in Hungarian photography, donated 63,000 items from his archives to the Central European Research Institute for Art History. The oeuvre of Korniss, who was the first photographer ever to be awarded the Kossuth Prize, focuses mainly on documenting the disappearing traditional peasant life and culture of Eastern Europe (mainly Transylvania). As part of the archive, the KEMKI has also received the complete collection of film negatives from The Guest …
Cold War Modernisms
… along new research directions, based primarily on the records of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts in KEMKI ADK. The deeper processing of the Design Center, namely the Industrial Design Information Center, added to the collection in 2023, has begun, while sub themes such as the relation between abstraction and public space, textile art and public space are also coming into focus.