‘research based art’

30 years of artpool.hu curated by Judit Bodor and Roddy Hunter   ➤  OPENING EVENT WITH PERFORMANCE  Thursday, 21 May 2026, 18:00 pm (CET) Opening speech by János Sugár Performance :  Roddy Hunter: a u t o m a t i n g {a r t p o o l . h u}     ➤  ASSOCIATED EVENT Thursday, 21 May 2026, 16.00-18.00 pm (CET) HISTORY/REALITY #4: from The Garden of Communication to the Dark …

… This hybrid, English-language event marks the final instalment of the series History / Reality, part of the two-year research project  Curating The Digital Attic Archive. The project aims to create an open-source web platform to reconnect the dispersed Attic Archive, maintaining its conceptual autonomy while preserving it physically across international collections. The series title derives from Pete Horobin’s 1970s performance, which explores how artists’ archives–particularly those …

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 …

… Senior Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, CEU) within the framework of KEMKI’s research project on the art of the 1980s. National frameworks and containers are often too narrow to fully grasp the complexities of social, historical, and artistic development. What, then, should replace methodological nationalism—multiculturalism, internationalism, or something else entirely? These questions are particularly pressing when viewed from the perspective of Eastern Europe, a …

Open call 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 was launched in the 1970s. His early joy pieces and the actions of the TÓTalJOY series are considered among the most important works representing the narrative of Eastern European conceptual …