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Artpool40 – Active Archives and Art Networks
… curatorial and museological practices, and the historiography of Cold War art scenes and networks. The conference takes Artpool’s 1979 concept of an “ Active Archive ” as a starting point to explore its contemporary interpretations and applications, and its similarities with and differences from other artist archives. As Artpool’s founder György Galántai puts it, an active archive “generates the very material to be archived” through calls for participation, cooperation, …
Networking the Peripheries / World Art Post: International Artist Stamp Exhibition
… growing archive of art documents he received from all over the world largely through the mail art network when he founded Artpool in 1979 together with Júlia Klaniczay. From this point on, in the spirit of the "active archive" concept, the Artpool collection, as well as its network, was systematically and strategically enriched through projects and “Art Tours” in Western Europe. This decentralized network not only facilitated communication with the art scene in capitalist countries, which was …
Márton Kristóf
Networker, Artist He is a student at the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Art. Since 2007 he has been a staff member and network architect at Artpool, currently his primary task is the restoration of the archive’s historical website. At the same time, he is actively involved in sound art, music, video art, film and theatre, and has participated in numerous performances …
What Will Be Already Exists: Temporalities of Cold War Archives in East-Central Europe and Beyond
… 2020, we organized an international conference entitled Artpool40 - Active Archives and Art Networks on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the foundation of Artpool and its concurrent relocation to the Central European Research Institute of Art History of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. The study volume related to the conference, edited by Emese Kürti and Zsuzsa László, is published by Transcript, one of Europe's leading independent scientific publishers. How do artist …
Zsófia Kókai
… art collective. From 2020–2021, she was project manager and curator of the Alterum - artist-run network in the CEE region, financed by the Visegrad Fund. In 2022, she curated Lili Agg and Veronika Romhány’s exhibition entitled Unfold in Unknown Waters, held at the U10 Gallery in Belgrade. Her most recent curated solo exhibition was Ivor Almásy: Growth Spurt, at the Tér-kép Gallery in 2023.