Betreff: Generational Renewal at Artpool
Datum: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 13:08:50 +0000 (UTC)
Von: Artpool <[email protected]>
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*POOL WINDOW* - NEWSLETTER OF THE ARTPOOL ART RESEARCH CENTER | 2021.01.29.
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Artpool has started a new chapter. After it functioned illegally for 10
years, as an NGO for 25 years, and following its integration to the
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest in 2015, and its relocation in 2020 to the
Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), a
long-planned generational renewal has also taken place. By January 2021
Júlia Klaniczay has given over her directorial role and duties to art
historian Emese Kürti. The founders of Artpool, György Galántai and
Júlia Klaniczay will continue in the future to play an active role in
Artpool’s life and will assist its activities with their expertise.
Emese Kürti, art historian, researcher, has been working for Artpool
since 2018. She worked in the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art
(2009–2015), later she was the founder and head of the private research
institution acb Research Lab (2015–2018), and a visiting professor at
Central European University (2019). In 2013 she received the best art
critic prize of the Hungarian Section of AICA. Her dissertation
published in 2018 in Hungarian, suggests a new interpretation for the
emerging neo-avant-garde practices based on experimental music in
Hungary. She is the author of several essays on neo-avant-garde art
interpreted in transregional context, as well as the book /Screaming
Hole: Poetry, Sound, and Action as Intermedia Practice in the Work of
Katalin Ladik/ (2017).
From 2021 on, the head of Artpool, Emese Kürti also serves as the
deputy research director of the Central European Research Institute
housing Artpool. The director of the new research institute is art
historian Dávid Fehér.
In the future, Artpool’s program will keep on following György
Galántai’s Active Archive concept, but we also wish to fill it with new,
contemporary interpretations. Founded in 1979 by György Galántai and
Júlia Klaniczay Artpool has been an active archive based on initiatives,
exchange of works, ideas and documents as well as the network of
correspondence art. Artpool will carry on the survey, processing,
research and preserving the documents of experimental art (Fluxus, mail
art, artist books, visual and sound poetry, performance, etc.) and make
them available for researchers. New publications, exhibitions,
conferences, projects, events, and international collaborations will
organically build on Artpool’s unique network and achievements of the
past 40 years.
Artpool’s ambition for the future is to extend this network to further
directions, participate in and initiate current critical discourses of
regional as well as international relevance.
Artpool Art Research Center
1135 Budapest, Szabolcs u. 33., D. ép.
[email protected]
© Artpool Art Research Center - Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
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