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 the …
ARTM Online A thematic selection of papers from the conferences that were held in 2002-2003 based on KEMKI’s regional collaborative research project entitled Resonances has been published in the online edition of ArtMargins. In the issue entitled “Regional Resonances: Transnational Aspirations in Central and Eastern European Art of the 1970s", the papers of Hana Buddeus, Zsuzsa …
Visibility and sharing constitute one of the main pillars of Artpool’s activities. This is also the purpose behind our regular presentations of works, selected along specific themes and displayed in the corridors and the chamber hall. Such showcases allow visitors to experience up close the workings of an “active archive”. Fanzine Anatomy – Alternative Hungarian Publications on Music and Politics from the Artpool Collection, …
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 1970s …
Az OFF-Biennále Budapest részeként György Galántai (1941), artist and organizer of the Balatonboglár Chapel Studio (1970–1973), has been continuously expanding his international mailing list since the 1970s, through which he initially sent his own publications. In 1973, the exhibition Text(s) (organized by Dóra Maurer and Gábor Tóth) featured works by Uruguayan artist Clemente Padín (1939), as well as works by Western and Eastern European artists. …