[spectre] Fwd: Generational Renewal at Artpool (Budapest, HU)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Betreff: 	Generational Renewal at Artpool
Datum: 	Fri, 29 Jan 2021 13:08:50 +0000 (UTC)
Von: 	Artpool <artpool at news.artpool.hu>


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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.
artpool at artpool.hu
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