‘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 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.
Showcasing Selections From the Collection
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, …
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 1970s …
László Beke Archives
The László Beke Archive contains the correspondence of art historian, art writer, and theoretician László Beke (1944–2022) with Hungarian and international (especially 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 …