‘mail art’
Mail Art Chro-No-Logy
Mail Art Research Project In 2015, Artpool launched a research project – long needed in an international context as well – with the aim of creating a complex digital historical chronology of mail art, based on Artpool’s continuously expanding collection. The current results of this process can be viewed on the Artpool website, organised by year, starting in 1962 (when Ray Johnson founded …
Artist Archives of the Future
Cooperation with the Andrzej Partum Archives Within the framework of the collaboration “Artist Archives of the Future”, the Andrzej Partum Archive (managed by Muzeum Sztuki) and Artpool staff are conducting comparative research in one another’s respective archives. The Andrzej Partum Archive (1938 - 2002), named after a prominent artist and theorist of the Polish neo-avantgarde, represents the art network of the …
Viktor Kotun
… in 2008. He defended his DLA thesis at the Doctoral School of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2012. His dissertation focused on the reconstruction of neo-avantgarde works. He has been working as an archivist at Artpool since 2008. He specialises in the management and processing of artist’s books and mail art-related collections. He is in charge of Artpool's Mail Art Chro-No-Logy project.
Mission and Goals
The Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) was established in 2021 as an affiliate of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Our mission is to strengthen Hungary's academic discourse and represent Hungarian art and art history at a high standard globally by initiating and implementing locally focused, regional and international research projects and collaborations connected to art-historical issues. The research …