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"Active - Archive - Research" Workshop
On 26 October 2023, archive research workshops will be launched at the Artpool Art Research Center. The group of seven people (university students and young researchers from different professional backgrounds) will start their work under the leadership of Andrea Pócsik, cultural researcher. The idea of the "laboratory" is based on the unique feature of Artpool that participants can develop their own research questions in …
Péter Korniss Archive
Photo history research In 2020 and 2023, Péter Korniss, one of the most influential figures in Hungarian photography, donated 63,000 items from his archives to the Central European Research Institute for Art History. The oeuvre of Korniss, who was the first photographer ever to be awarded the Kossuth Prize, focuses mainly on documenting the disappearing traditional peasant life and culture of Eastern …
Artpool40 – Active Archives and Art Networks
International Conference of the Artpool Art Research Center The international conference celebrates 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. It aims to map the cultural-political-historical contexts of Artpool's activity by bringing together scholars and practitioners interested in transnational research …
Margit Koller
Administrative Assistant, Research Services (Archive) She graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts as a sculptor and fine arts teacher in 2015. After her graduation, while pursuing her career in arts, she taught at an art high school in Debrecen, later at Kisképző, in Budapest. Between 2016 and 2022, she concluded her DLA studies at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and taught courses alongside Valéria …
Zsófia Beke
Chief Museologist, Research Services (Archive) She graduated from the programs in Art History and Italian Studies of the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE), and received her doctorate degree in 2005. Her dissertation focused on the spatial-theoretical synthesis of painting in the 1990s’ in Hungary. In 1995-1996, she was an art historian at the Hanság Museum of Mosonmagyaróvár, and between …