30 years of artpool.hu curated by Judit Bodor and Roddy Hunter ➤ OPENING EVENT WITH PERFORMANCE Thursday, 21 May 2026, 18:00 pm (CET) Opening speech by János Sugár Performance : Roddy Hunter: a u t o m a t i n g {a r t p o o l . h u} ➤ ASSOCIATED EVENT Thursday, 21 May 2026, 16.00-18.00 pm (CET) HISTORY/REALITY #4: from The Garden of Communication to the Dark …
… This hybrid, English-language event marks the final instalment of the series History / Reality, part of the two-year research project Curating The Digital Attic Archive. The project aims to create an open-source web platform to reconnect the dispersed Attic Archive, maintaining its conceptual autonomy while preserving it physically across international collections. The series title derives from Pete Horobin’s 1970s performance, which explores how artists’ archives–particularly those …
Edgardo Antonio Vigo (1928–1997), Argentine artist and well-known figure in the Latin American resistance art movement of the 1970s, pursued a rich, versatile, and experimental creative career, a segment of which is now on display for Hungarian audiences. The Artpool collection exhibition emphasizes Vigo's special relationship with artists’ periodicals, showing how the artist used this medium not only to create a creative shared space, but …
… relatively unknown in Europe, with too few events dedicated to it. The new collection display at Artpool, an essential historical archive of Mail Art, aims to make visible and promote in Europe this marginal yet essential poet, artist, and publisher. The day after the opening, a roundtable discussion will explore, among other things, Vigo's European connections. Participants: Marie Boivent, professor of Visual Art at Université Rennes 2 (France), curator of the collection …
… the SUMUS Foundation. The archive contains important documents of Dóra Maurer's and Tibor Gáyor's art: manuscripts, photographs, sketches of Dóra Maurer's visual and performance art, documents of her pedagogical work, along with the professional correspondence of the two artists. With 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 …