‘art archives’

… 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 …

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 …

… 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 …

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. …

KEMKI Open Lectures I. The Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) is launching a three-part series of free university lectures in the spring of 2022 related to the history of the building that houses the institute. The first Israelite hospital of Pest moved in 1889 to the plot enclosed by Szabolcs Street – Dózsa György Road – Nyugati Railway Station. At the beginning of the 20 th century, the complex was annexed with the Alice Weiss …