Artpool Art Research Center
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Artpool Art Research Center is a free, non-profit archives and exhibition space in Budapest, Hungary, dedicated to contemporary international avant-garde media arts, such as artist’s books, mail art, and video. It is located at Liszt Ferenc tér, 10, first floor.
It was founded in 1979 as a center for the type of avant-garde art that was officially condemned or prohibited by the national establishment. It was founded, and is still run, by György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay, as an offshoot of Gyorgy’s summer studio.
From 1983 - 1985, Artpool illegally published 11 issues of "Aktuális Levél" (Artpool Letter), an underground (samizdat) magazine which was the only source on unofficial art of that time in Hungary.
Since 1992, ArtPool, which had achieved a growing international reputation, and was opened publicly with from the Budapest Municipal Council.
The public collection at Artpool ranges over 300 meters shelving. The archive and library contain documents of international art of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and documents related to the Hungarian avant-garde of the 1970s and 1980s, such as “correspondence, notes, plans, ideas, interviews, writings, works of art, photo documents, catalogs, invitation cards, bibliographies, chronologies, diagrams, video and sound documents, CD-Roms, etc.”
Artpool also houses collections of artist’s money, artist’s stamps, and artist’s objects. .
Some of the international avant-garde artists and art-groups who are in the Artpool Archives, and have exhibited and lectured there include:
Barbara Rosenthal
,
Tomasz Konart,
Antonio Muntades,
Fluxus
,
John Cage
, and
Ray Johnson
It was founded in 1979 as a center for the type of avant-garde art that was officially condemned or prohibited by the national establishment. It was founded, and is still run, by György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay, as an offshoot of Gyorgy’s summer studio.
From 1983 - 1985, Artpool illegally published 11 issues of "Aktuális Levél" (Artpool Letter), an underground (samizdat) magazine which was the only source on unofficial art of that time in Hungary.
Since 1992, ArtPool, which had achieved a growing international reputation, and was opened publicly with from the Budapest Municipal Council.
The public collection at Artpool ranges over 300 meters shelving. The archive and library contain documents of international art of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and documents related to the Hungarian avant-garde of the 1970s and 1980s, such as “correspondence, notes, plans, ideas, interviews, writings, works of art, photo documents, catalogs, invitation cards, bibliographies, chronologies, diagrams, video and sound documents, CD-Roms, etc.”
Artpool also houses collections of artist’s money, artist’s stamps, and artist’s objects. .
Some of the international avant-garde artists and art-groups who are in the Artpool Archives, and have exhibited and lectured there include:
Barbara Rosenthal
Barbara Rosenthal
Barbara Rosenthal is an American avant-garde artist and writer. Her existential themes have contributed to contemporary art and philosophy...
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Tomasz Konart,
Antonio Muntades,
Fluxus
Fluxus
Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning,...
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John Cage
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
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Ray Johnson
Ray Johnson
Raymond Edward Johnson , known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art...