… take an interdisciplinary approach, at the intersection of art history, exhibition history, and cultural diplomacy (soft power), in order to illuminate the artistic nodes of bilateral and regional international relations and to examine the memory of the Holocaust in fine arts in the context of Cold War confrontation and East–West rivalry. The two ongoing research projects are The Modern Idol: Henry Moore in the Eastern Bloc and Holocaust and the Arts. The former examines, in the …
… different professional backgrounds) will start their work under the leadership of Andrea Pócsik, cultural researcher. The idea of the "laboratory" is based on the unique feature of Artpool that participants can develop their own research questions in discussion with the founders, artist György 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 …
… 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 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 …
… design, “which were assembled into meaningful series, regardless of geographical, political, and cultural boundaries,” write Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay in the introduction to the catalog. Artpool organized an exhibition of the stamp designs received from 550 artists from 35 countries at the Fészek Club in April 1982, which made visible the transcontinental, contingent, and with blind-spots, but nevertheless utopian, network of gift culture that the project had set in motion. Many …
… Secretariat She is a graduate of the Programs in Art History and French Language, Literature and Culture at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Between 2010 and 2016, she worked as an exhibition organizer and collection manager at MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art in Debrecen. In addition to working on processing the Antal Lusztig Collection, she was also, for instance, curator of the exhibition entitled The Plain: Stories from the Past Two Hundred Years of Hungarian Fine Arts …