‘research based art’
What Will Be Already Exists: Temporalities of Cold War Archives in East-Central Europe and Beyond
Edited Volume of Selected Papers from the Artpool40 Conference In February 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 …
Petra Csizek
Project Manager Studied art history in the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), and is currently studying at the University of Pécs. She has worked as a cultural manager, curator and programme organiser, participating in the creation and organisation of numerous exhibitions, professional programmes, public events, international projects and art prizes, as well as art studio and visitor …
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 …
TÓTalJOY 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 series are considered among the most important works …
Resonances
Regional and Transregional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 1970s Project leader: Emese Kürti, Zsuzsa László The project explores cultural transfers between artists, art professionals, and intellectuals of the region in the ’70s to compose a new, transnational, and dialogical history for neo-avant-garde art of Central-East Europe. Running from 2021 to 2024, this collaborative research project will first take the form of a traveling …