‘documents’
The Digital "Attic Archive"
… A to A - New Directions”, can be found here. Pete Horobin was actively involved in arranging the documents and works donated to Artpool, as well as in refining the lists during his visits to Budapest in 2010, 2012, and 2019. Visit and workshop at Artpool, 24-25/10/2024
TÓTalJOY Prize
… in spring 2023, explored a particular cross-section of Artpool’s collection that utilised the art documents held there as a repository of knowledge and ideas that may be marginal from a traditional art-historical perspective, but are nevertheless exciting from an artistic standpoint. Tamás Kaszás’s exhibition entitled Savage Intern was on view at the Hungarian National Gallery from 3 March to 11 June 2023. In January 2023, a call for applications was announced for the second time, …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Dezső Korniss), 2022
… Dezső/1-3) belong to the public sculpture register, which comprises part of the 500 metres of documents that originally belonged to the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts, but have, since 2014, been kept at ADK’s predecessor, the Data Archives of the Hungarian National Gallery. The mosaic of the Esperanto Fountain is, on the one hand, an early and qualitative example of making the most (often thanks to professional solidarity) of the limited possibilities afforded by the institutional …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Mihály Munkácsy), 2022
… 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 includes the artist’s …
Contemporary Art in KEMKI
… past, explore possible points of connection, and seek a contemporary approach. They reflect on the documents—be it in the form of texts or objects—preserved in the relevant collection units (e.g., KEMKI ADK’s archives and lectorate materials) by reworking motifs and archive material. In the tapestries displayed along the corridor of the lectorate and in the research room (Ferenc Gróf and Zsófia Gyenes), the logos of art institutions that had defined the pre-regime-change era (Gallery …