‘mail art’
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 …
ArtMargins’ Resonances Special Issue
ARTM Online A thematic selection of papers from the conferences that were held in 2002-2003 based on KEMKI’s regional collaborative r esearch 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 …
László Beke Archives
The archive of László Beke, art historian, art writer, and theorist (1944–2022), contains documents related to his collaborations and art projects, as well as his decades-long correspondence with Hungarian and international (with a particular focus on Central and Eastern European) (neo)avant-garde artists, as well as to his manuscripts, photographs, slides, and publications from the 1960s through the 2010s. Ironically …
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 …
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 …