What is the current state of independent art archives, databases and registers in Hungary and internationally, and 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 why should they be considered separately? Art that falls outside the institutional system and operates under unique conditions – sometimes referred to as …
Digital selection from the Poetry Bureau (Andrzej Partum) and Artpool collections. "Artists are like seismographs foreseeing future tectonic movements. In the same decade, the 1970s, unusual institutions were established both in Budapest and Warsaw: Artpool by György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay, and Andrzej Partum’s Poetry Bureau. It was clear to everyone that something extraordinary was happening. Even if only because any disobedience invited …
Artpool Art Research Centre is one of four archives participating in the international research project 'Curating the Digital Attic Archive: A Case Study for Open-Source Approaches to Artists' Archives', and will host a meeting of archivists from Scotland and Ireland in person and an online workshop with leading experts from Denmark, Germany, and Netherlands during 24-25 October 2024. The …
Presentation and discussion When a renowned artist dies, it is best to keep all his/her belongings together. Not only works, but also sketches and notes. (The sketch, the sculpture left unfinished at the torso, or intended to be just a torso in the first place, and even studio waste are also works of art, or at least, who would dare to bear the responsibility for throwing them away?) Their painting palette, glasses, armchair... Their …
The archive of the internationally renowned art historian László Beke, who passed away in 2022, was transferred to the KEMKI ADK collection in 2023 thanks to the family's honourable decision, and thus became the main pillar of the Beke's life work processing carried out by the Research Department of KEMKI under the umbrella of the Resonances project. Once arranged and processed, the archive will be accessible to external researchers. …