‘mail art’

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 coincidences. …

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 …