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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 …
CFP: Infrastructures of Trading and Transferring Art since 1900
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 …
Tót Endre: Documents Make Me Glad/Sad/Mad
The relationship between Endre Tót and Artpool dates back many decades. The most obvious contemporary monument of this relationship is the "sidewalk table" with the line: 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 …
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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 …
Kaszás Tamás: Vad gyakornok
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 …