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"Active - Archive - Research" Workshop
… Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay, and find the right paths to understand the archive and explore the collection. They will also learn about the complementary but different methods of art history and cultural studies, and gain insights into the conceptual and theoretical framework of memory and archive research. The learning (in the words of György Galántai) becomes an exchange of ideas, and the results further enrich the possibilities of thinking about Artpool as an active archive. The …
"Our House" Collection
The part of the collection referred to as “Our House” documents the professional work conducted at the museum. It was created after the Hungarian National Gallery was moved to the Buda Castle in 1975. “Our House Exhibitions” constitutes a key part of this material; it contains the professional documentation of all exhibitions arranged at the Hungarian National Gallery. In the process of expanding the collection, …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (László Moholy-Nagy), 2022
… was acquired by the Hungarian National Bank from the artist’s nephew, Levente Nagy in 2015. The collection primarily aids in scholarly research. In addition to lists of artworks, books and other publications, it also includes a few autograph letters and early watercolours, which had been left in the family’s possession.
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Lili Ország), 2022
… section overall dimensions: 70x 78 cm The estate of Lili ORSZÁG (1926-1978) was added to our collection in 1981 as a gift from art collector János VASILESCU (1921-2006). It also contains printed circuit boards originally manufactured for household appliances, which the artist had acquired from the Gelka repair service and then used in various ways—as a printing block and an enlarged printing plate—to create the images of the Labyrinth. The object under inventory number KEMKI ADK …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Mihály Munkácsy), 2022
… 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, in the present work, appears as a silhouette. The collection also …