‘research’
László Beke Archive and Research
… family's decision, which is an honour for us. The archive is now the central source of the KEMKI Research Department’s work in processing Beke’s oeuvre, under the aegis of the Resonances project. The archive will be opened to external researchers after organisation and processing. In the second half of 2025, JRP|Editions will publish a volume compiled by the research department of KEMKI and tranzit.hu, containing the English translations of László Beke's most important theoretical …
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 York …
TÓTalJOY Prize
Research based art prize Project leader: Brigitta Ádi Visual artist Endre Tót, founder and supporter of the TÓTalJOY Prize, had long been planning to create a form of support for contemporary Hungarian artists. The prize derives its name from Endre Tót’s conceptual program centred on the notion of joy, which was launched in the 1970s. His early joy pieces and the actions of the TÓTalJOY …