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… the post-WWII period. Illustrated with images from the Péter Korniss Archive (held in the collection of the KEMKI ADK) as well as some previously unpublished photographs, the authors explore aspects of the artist’s œuvre with respect to the history of photography, press and art, as well as in connection to art theory and art trade. At the book launch on 3 April, a roundtable discussion will be moderated by Gábor Pfisztner with the participation of Edit Barta, György Cséka and …

… established by artist Pete Horobin in 1975 at 37 Union Street, Dundee, and now dispersed across collections in Scotland, Ireland and Hungary.   Working as a 'network of care,' the research group is developing an open-source web platform for The Attic Archive designed and developed by sound and infrastructure artist  Vo Ezn.  This is the second workshop in a series of three, and you can learn more about the first event in Dundee  here . We aim to launch the web platform …

… Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay, and find the right paths to understand the archive and explore the collection. They will also learn about the complementary but different methods of art history and cultural studies, and gain insights into the conceptual and theoretical framework of memory and archive research. The learning (in the words of György Galántai) becomes an exchange of ideas, and the results further enrich the possibilities of thinking about Artpool as an active archive. The …

Donation by Dóra Maurer and the SUMUS Foundation The SUMUS Archive was generously donated to ADK's collection in the first half of 2025 by Dóra Maurer and 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 …

Alternative Hungarian Publications on Music and Politics from the Artpool Collection From the second half of the 1980s alternative self-published and technically inexpensive publications emerged that (unlike samizdat) were themed around (and for) a particular subculture, scene or fan community. In the 1990s, liberation of social organizing, together with the growing availability of photocopying and Western models, created the ideal conditions for the flourishing of …