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Organising the Spectacle: Research on the Avantgarde
Project leader: Magdolna Gucsa, Eszter Őze Our research on the avantgarde examines the media, institutional changes and series of events that characterised the period in the context late 19 th -early 20 th century social movements and mass culture. It goes beyond the aesthetic interpretations of art and approaches it through its social embeddedness and international framework, in line with methods and inquiries from the interdisciplinary …
László Beke archive and research
… decision, and thus became the main pillar of the Beke's life work processing carried out by the Research Department of KEMKI under the umbrella of the Resonances project. Once arranged and processed, the archive will be accessible to external researchers. In service of László Beke’s oeuvre and the visibility of his archive, a collection of texts in English is in the process of being published by an international company, an international conference is in the works for 2025, …
György Galántai
Founder, Art-researcher Born in 1941 in Bikács (Hungary) Graduated as a painter in 1967 from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. Multimedia artist, art researcher. His view of art shows close ties with the spirit of Fluxus, which rejected the creation of traditional art works and defined the task of art as inventing conceptual objects, creative situations, as well as permanent creative and …
Emese Kürti
Deputy Director for Research, Head of Department, Art Historian From 2018 to 2021, she was a researcher at the Artpool Art Research Center, then Head of Department from 2021 to 2022. She is currently Head of the Department of Research and Deputy Director of Research at the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI). Previously, she was a lecturer at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and …
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 New …