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"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, materials were also included not only …
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
László Beke Archives
… Central and Eastern European) (neo-)avantgarde artists over several decades, as well as his documents, art projects, manuscripts, photographs, slides and printed publications. Of these, the so-called Imagination/Idea project conceived by Beke deserves special mention, along with many aspects of Hungarian conceptual art, mail art, fluxus, land art, happenings, environments, and action art. The László Beke Archives make a valuable contribution towards understanding and processing …
The Béla Gruber Bequest
… Arts – Hungarian National Gallery. The Gruber bequest includes primary written sources (personal documents, letters, and journal entries) and secondary written sources such as the transcripts of exhibition opening speeches, newspaper articles and academic papers. Photographs and audiovisual material (which has since been digitized) also form part of the collection. The material compiled by Béla Gruber’s sister encompasses the artist’s entire lifetime. Furthermore, it also includes the …
Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts
… decades-long operations are recorded in a collection of complexly diverse and irreplaceable documents, which is accessible in its entirety in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK). The main portion of the Lectorate’s Archives consists of documentation of public works of art (together with the associated photographic material). The rest of the material is comprised of other documents, including a larger collection of …