‘avantgard’
Viktor Kotun
… Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2012. His dissertation focused on the reconstruction of neo-avantgarde works. He has been working as an archivist at Artpool since 2008. He specialises in the management and processing of artist’s books and mail art-related collections. He is in charge of Artpool's Mail Art Chro-No-Logy project.
Emese Kürti
… international research network. Her research interests include Hungarian and Yugoslavian neo-avantgarde art (fluxus, conceptual art, experimental poetry and performance, as well as the issues of minority collectives and women’s positions). She received her doctorate in Film Studies from the ELTE Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies; her dissertation was published by L’Harmattan in 2018 ( Glissando and Plucking the Strings: Contemporary Music and Neo-avantgarde Art in Private Spaces …
Eszter Őze
… Historian Research fellow at the Central European Research Institute for Art History, working in avantgarde research. She earned her BA in Art History and Aesthetics at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), and her MA in Art Theory and Curatorial Studies at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. She completed her PhD in philosophy at the ELTE Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies. She is a researcher of early 20 th century art history and museology. In recent years, she has primarily …
Petra Csizek
… ( Parallel Avant-garde – The Pécs Workshop 1968-80 ; Bosch+Bosch Group and the Vojvodina Neo-avantgarde Movement ). Her curatorial interests have also focused on the relationship between contemporary art and public spaces, as well as explorations of possibilities for cooperation and the examination of current social problems ( Winterreise, Budapest Gallery, 2022; Slow Life – Radical Practices of the Everyday, Ludwig Museum, 2020; Simple Majority // No One Belongs Here More Than You, …
Artist Archives of the Future
… 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 1980s. Similar to—and in part overlapping with—Artpool, it has a significant collection of mail art, including works by several Hungarian artists (e.g. Sándor Pinczehelyi, László Beke, Gábor Attalai, György Galántai, Gábor Tóth and Dóra Maurer). The outcome of this collaboration was on view for the general public in November 2024, at …