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The Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) warmly invites all interested parties to the TÓTalJOY Award ceremony, which will take place on June 24, 2025. Endre Tót and the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) established the TÓTalJOY prize for contemporary artists in 2021. The prize derives its name from Endre Tót’s conceptual program centred on the notion of joy, which …

… publications from 1986 to 2003 selected from the rich fanzine collection of the Artpool Art Research Center. The two themes of the selected publications—music (related to punk and other alternative subcultures and/or thematizing music) and political or social issues (mainly by anarchist and feminist groups)—are in many ways intertwined. Behind the seemingly chaotic editorial principles that define fanzines, there is a recurring structure that draws on formats present in …

… greatest Hungarian art archives of the second half of the twentieth century will be accessible and researchable at KEMKI. Significant new research on these documents is planned, complementing the research relating to the László Beke Archive, which was adopted in 2023.

… also radically increased the range of documentation possibilities. Nonetheless, documenting and researching independent art has constituted a complex problem in Central and Eastern Europe for decades.  Retrospectively seeking and organising sources, along with the maintaining and modernising digital platforms, are also often fraught with basic technical, infrastructural, and funding difficulties. What is the current state of independent art archives, databases, and registers in Hungary …

… publications from 1986 to 2003 selected from the rich fanzine collection of the Artpool Art Research Center. The two themes of the selected publications—music (related to punk and other alternative subcultures and/or thematizing music) and political or social issues (mainly by anarchist and feminist groups)—are in many ways intertwined. Behind the seemingly chaotic editorial principles that define fanzines, there is a recurring structure that draws on formats present in mainstream …