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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 …

… research project, Resonances, which concluded in 2023, has been published in the online edition of ArtMargins. The articles by Hana Buddeus, Zsuzsa László and Alina Șerban featured in the issue Regional Resonances: In Search of the Transnational in Central Eastern European Art of the 1970s present an interconnected history of previously unexplored cross-border collaborations and friendships.   The second part of this special issue, with essays by Emese Kürti, Cristian Nae and …

Workshop - Call for Papers Although art market studies as an academic field has become increasingly popular in the last decade, there has been little research that critically examines the actors, places, rules, and structures of this system. This workshop aims to explore the infrastructures through which artworks have been produced and exchanged for goods, money, services, and reputation since 1900. Our focus is not only on the …

The TÓTalJOY Prize was established by the Museum of Fine Art’s Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), with the generous support of Endre Tót. In 2021, a project by Tamás Kaszás was selected as the winning entry by the six-member Hungarian and international jury. Applications that reflected on changing cultural contexts and contemporary dilemmas in relation to the archives and ethos of the KEMKI - Artpool Art Research …

Artpool’s alternative presence in Kapolcs Exhibition-event in the Area 51: Data, as information, makes knowledge possible, and as a result of knowledge, first intuition and then wisdom will make all conspiracy theories impossible. Following the pattern of nature’s workings, in a knowledge-based society the future beginnings can manifest consciously through our perception of …