‘documents’
The Béla Gruber Documents
Two Workers in the Street. Sketch on the back of one of Béla Gruber’s documents
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 …
Showcasing Selections From the Collection
… Hungarian Publications on Music and Politics from the Artpool Collection, 14/05-19/09/2025 Documents from the first decade of Artpool Art Research Center, 06/03-08/05/2024 Ray Johnson 96 - Nothing, Chance, and Identity, 16/10/2023-13/01/2024 Fluxus@Artpool, 12/07-04/10/2023 50 Years of Rememberance/Basic Differences, 04/25-28/06/2023 FUTURE BEGINNINGS / COINCIDENCES | NOW, 01/12/2022-06/04/2023 Art periodicals of alternative culture in Hungary in the 1980s, …