‘documents’

… 50 years ago, introduces the ambiguous and fundamental otherness of the key participants. Documents, images and texts, sounds and videos, presented as installations, inform from the past to the present with general and most personal perspectives on artistic and non-artistic existential issues. The film Kultúr/Galántai/Domb [Culture/Galántai/Hill] directed by György Galántai in 1992 will be screened at the opening (38:16), which consists of memories of the past and the director's …

… during the evaluation process.  Artpool boasts an unrivalled collection, comprising mainly documents from the underground fine arts, music, literature, and experimental film culture as well as from the international mail-art movement. Kaszás's research is linked to Artpool's experimental spirit: the artist, in collaboration with Artpool staff, has worked with the collection, transcending the classical conceptual frameworks and theories of archives by using the tools of contemporary …

… historical context, the works reflect motifs and visual solutions on the textual and material documents preserved in the relevant collection units (e.g. the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Center and the Archive of the Lectorate). On the tapestries of the right corridor and in the researchers' room of the first floor (by Ferenc Gróf and Zsófia Gyenes) the enlarged logos of the art institutions that defined the period before the regime change (Képcsarnok Vállalat, Young Artists Studio, …

… selection from Artpool’s collection entitled Language Games. The display contains works and documents of  cross-border collaboration by Karel Adamus, Gábor Attalai, László Beke, Attila Csernik, Robert Cyprich, Tibor Csiky, Miklós Erdély, Jarosław Kozłowski, Natalia LL, Katalin Ladik, László Lakner, Dóra Maurer, Sándor Pinczehelyi, Robert Rehfeldt, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Tamás Szentjóby, Bálint Szombathy, Endre Tót, Gábor Tóth, Péter Türk, Jiří Valoch and Franci Zagoričnik. The …

… I am glad to have stood here in front of the Artpool entrance but the archive preserves works and documents of the artist from all eras. On the occasion of the TÓTalJOY award, we have selected more intimate pieces and documents, which reveal the friendship and appreciation between the artists as well as their distinctive interventions. The exhibition provides an insight into the methods of documentation and self-documentation, as well as the artistic use of documents. The exhibition can …