‘archives’

… writing in its various forms, including mail art and its expansion into the field of artists’ archives. She lead the research project  OBASA and Artpool: Collecting, Connecting, Archiving. The Active Archive as a Cultural Alternative on the Global Stage” (2021-2022). Viktor Kotun, archivist in Artpool Art Research Center. He specialises in artist’s books and mail art-related collections and is compiling Artpool's  Mail Art Chro-No-Logy.   Please note that audio and …

The research service of the Archives and Documentation Centre will be temporarily closed from 21 July to 25 August. See you again from 26 August!  Photo credits: Imre Varga: Woman Swimming, sculpture, Hajdúszoboszló, Béke Hotel, 25001/2014/146/Varga Imre /V/46

… the adoption of the SUMUS Archive – following its processing – one of the greatest Hungarian art archives of the second half of the twentieth century will be accessible and researchable at KEMKI. Significant new research on these documents is planned, complementing the research relating to the László Beke Archive, which was adopted in 2023.

What is the current state of independent art archives, databases and registers in Hungary and internationally? To what extent are they visible? Who uses them and for what purpose? Can art archives even be separated from other historical source bases in the first place, and if so, why should they be considered separately? Art that falls outside the institutional system and operates under unique conditions – sometimes referred to as …

… Even if only because any disobedience invited the disapproval of the authorities, and bureaus and archives were the domain of the state. Over time, the artistic spaces created by Galántai, Klaniczay and Partum transformed into a real Archive and a real Bureau full of materials and responsibilities: they corresponded, they filed documents, they received visitors. What were they doing, what were they working on? Let us be aware that the activities involved artists from both sides of the …