ART + POST (art in hungary)
1981. Mini Galéria, Újpest, Budapest - 21 July - 20 August 1981. - Artpool's first Hungarian Mail Art exhibition with postal works by 86 artists and invitation cards of 36 cultural institutions. Some sent objects and bookworks were also shown as well as two international mail art projects. Pieces from Artpool's audio archive were to be listen to during the show. (APS no.7)
ART-UMBRELLA-POSTCARD-SHOW
Helikon Galéria, Budapest - 16 December, 1981 - 10 January 1982 - a "non official exhibition" in the framework of the "Christmas-New Year postcard show" where Galántai has been invited. He altered and passed over the invitation to 33 Hungarian artists. (APS no.8)
EVERYBODY WITH ANYBODY
1982. Young Artists' Club, Budapest - 26 February, 1982. - rubber stamp competition, event and exhibition, special space arrangement (APS no.11ű)
RECONSTRUCTION OF A BANNED EXHIBITION
1989. Young Artists' Club, 9-21 December, 1989. - Exact reconstruction of the exhibition "Hungary Can Be Yours", banned in 1984. At the opening: round-table discussion of the former censors and censored. A video documents the event, and the catalog of the exhibition (edited in 1984) has also been published.
UNDERGROUND ART IN THE ACZÉL-ERA
1990. Kossuth Klub, Budapest - 2-16 February, 1990 (in the framework of the "Liberal Evenings") Exhibition with slide show of documents of the non-official art of the '70s from the Artpool Archive. From 7 p.m. literary evening, then a discussion with the "survivers" of the "Aczél period".
TÜKÖR / MIRROR / SPIEGEL / MIROIR
1992. Mirror-works by 35 artists (organised by László Beke) Balatonboglár, Chapel Studio, 5-11 August 1973 Again presentated at the opening of Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, 23 March-15 May 1992, (space–glass/pane installation by György Galántai)
250 MEMORIAL STAMP IMAGES OF 150 HUNGARIAN ARTISTS
Artpool - 12 June - 14 August 1992 - FROM THE WORLD ART POST COLLECTION – exhibition of the Artistamp Museum
AUDIO-VISUAL AND ELECTRONIC CHILDREN-TOGETHERNESS
Newkapolcs Gallery, Kapolcs - 16-20 July 1992 - (on the occasion of the Kapolcs Art Festival) creativity training and exhibition with children - Motto: we build something from what we have got, and that we have got is inside of us.
George MACIUNAS
1993. Artpool - 19 March – 14 May 1993 - George MACIUNAS' first exhibition in Hungary. Diagrams, ccV TRE, Fluxus writing paper and envelope, Fluxpost stamps, grotesque mask, Fluxus wedding (documents)
TÓT Endre, "ZerO retrospective"
Artpool - 19 March – 14 May 1993 - (zero works 1971-1984), for the first time in Hungary
3x4
Artpool - 21 May – 25 August 1993 - Exhibition by Gábor ALTORJAY, Miklós ERDÉLY and Tamás St.AUBY:
12 objects from the second half of the 60s.
LOOSE FLUX events on BEN TÉR
Liszt Ferenc square (BEN TÉR) - 2 and 3 October 1993
- Guests of Artpool and Loose Pages were performing. Group works, concerts, intermedia poetry, sound art, action music, sound objects, philosophical lectures, performances, ego productions, re-actions, installations (with Laca feLugossy, Attila Nagy and the Girls, Re-actors, Endre Szkárosi, Gábor Tóth, etc.)
PETRIfied forEAST
1994. Írók Boltja, Budapest - 11 May 1994 - György KONRÁD (writer) presented the bookwork of Péter Forgács, György Galántai and György Petri. The Visual Arts Research Studio of the Arizona State University concieved a collaborative project for a bookwork in 1989. The topic was "Freedom/Oppression: Central European Artists in Response". Artpool was requested to take part and help to select the participating Hungarian artists of the opposition.
MIKLÓS ERDÉLY MEMORIAL DAY
Newkapolcs Gallery - 16 July 1994 - Passivity Exercise, video event - field-work by GYÖRGY GALÁNTAI ("...passivity is loose assignment to the impressions which is as important part of the artistic work as activity itself." Miklós ERDÉLY)
LOOSE SLOGANS
Liszt Ferenc square - 24 September - 9 October 1994 - open air text-exhibition as an event of the Budapest Autumn Festival. György KOZMA, Juszuf ANTAL and Gábor TÓTH made a performance on the opening of the exhibition.
Performance - Series of lectures
1995. Artpool - 22 March - 7 June 1995 - Series of lectures and research programs - Lectures and discussions about the antecedents and the history of performance art with the participation of its most important hungarian and some significant international representatives.
SLOGENS OF ISTVÁN SAJNOS/SORRY
Liszt Ferenc square - 23 September - 8 October 1995 - exhibition in the frame of the Budapest Autumn Festival. The exhibition was preceded by public competition. Altogether 267 texts of the 51 participants were published in a catalogue. The participants themselves could vote for the 28 texts that were exhibited on street-boards.
Picture-Poetry
1996. Liszt Ferenc square - 27 September - 13 October 1996 - open air exhibition - Visual and Concrete Poetry - Budapest Autumn Festival
Quotations from Kassák
1997. Liszt Ferenc square - 26 September - 12 October 1996 - open air exhibition - Lajos Kassák was born 110 and died 30 years ago. On the exhibition a selection from Kassák's dadaist picture-poems from 1920-1922 and quotations from his poems published in the activist art review, MA will be on display.
MAIL ART - EASTERN EUROPE
IN THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK
1998. Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest - 8 February - 15 March 1998 - Touring exhibition of the Staatliches Museum Schwerin (Germany) completed with original works and documents of the Hungarian Mail Art activity from the collection of Artpool. - For this occasion Artpool completed and published the chronology of the Hungarian Correspondence Art and Mail Art Movement (1956-1998), as well as the Mail Art On Line web site, from where information about Mail Art on the internet can be reached
Miklós Erdély {SIDEWALK}
Liszt Ferenc square - 16 October - 1 November, 1998 - The boards installed on the 28 lampposts are quotations from a strange untitled writing of Miklós Erdély (1928-1986). This special edition of the text and the linguistic analysis of its inherent textual references can bring us closer to understanding Miklós Erdély´s artistic work.
Endre Tót´s First Sidewalk table
in front of Artpool P60 - 19 October, 1998 - The bronze casted table installed in the pavement is the first lasting piece in public domain of Endre Tót´s "I´m glad to..." series. - If we consider Endre Tót´s table a ("postneoavantgarde") kind of symbol of canonization, we can experience the present as future built on the past. ("I am glad to have stood here" / to have kept standing / to have remained standing / to have stood for / to have stood over / to have stood down / etc.)
Works by Sándor Altorjai
Artpool P60 - 19 October - 30 October, 1998 - Aleatoric Demontage or Picture-installation? - The exhibition curated by Ákos Vörösváry is selected from the heritage of Sándor Altorjai (1933-1979) collected at the "First Hungarian Museum of Sight". In the conception of György Galántai it is associated with the Lifework exhibition of his fellow artist and friend Miklós Erdély at Műcsarnok, Budapest Kunsthalle and his open air exhibition at Liszt Ferenc Square.
Stencilage at the Storehouse-Airport
1999. Artpool P60 - 26 January - 5 March, 1999 - Exhibition by Márton Cserny - Motives - from the art of Europe and my head - cut out and transformed to templates to be sprayed as parts of a visual alphabet. (Marton Cserny)
CONTEXT ZERO POINTS - MONOCHROM AND NOTHING
Artpool P60 - 12-26 March, 1999 - Yves Klein, Ben Vautier, Ray Johnson, Miklós Erdély and Endre Tót
in the presentation of György Galántai
THE STREETLIGHT
Liszt Ferenc square - 15 - 31 October, 1999 - (adaptation of texts by Vilém Flusser)
INDUCTIVE POINT OF JUNCTION by INTERMÉDIA
The Bartók 32 Gallery at Artpool P60 - 3 - 12 December 1999 - exhibiting artists: Gábor Bakos (with István Fábri) - Attila Csörgő - Róza El-Hassan - Attila Erdődy József - Miklós Erhardt - Roland Farkas - Géza Péter Fekete - Fanni Herczeg / Judit Héra - Gábor Győrfi - András Kapitány - Tibor Kaszás - Andrea Kirkovits - Éva Emese Kiss - Róbert Langh - Orsolya Nyitrai - Zsuzsanna Rebeka Pál - Szilvia Reischl - Andrea Schneemeier - Szilvia Seres (with: József A. Ádám, Éva Emese Kiss, Helga Eszter Rajz, Gábor Tálosi) - Ágnes Szabó - Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák - Anikó Szövényi - Gábor Valcz - Júlia Vécsei - Brigitta Zics
International Hungary in 1984
2000. Artpool P60 - 14-28 April, 2000 - Reconstruction of the exhibition opened 16 years ago,on 27 January 1984, Young Artists' Club, Budapest, with works by 46 Hungarian and 58 foreign artists from 18 countries, and banned on the spot by the authorities, for so called "professional" reasons. The reconstruction follows the secret police reports made about the exhibition with detailed description of the "dangerous" artworks found recently at the History Archives.
Circa 30 years ago Chapel Exhibitions at Balatonboglár
Artpool P60 - 5-16 June, 2000 - exhibition and video documents - The Chapel Studio was organized and ran by György Galántai between 1970 and 1973 at Balatonboglár. Altogether 35 exhibitions, concerts, poetry recitals, theatrical performances, and film showings were held in those 4 years, featuring the best of Hungary´s (undesirable) avant-garde artists, and guest artists from abroad. Some highlights: 1972: the first exhibition of conceptual art in Hungary; Avant-Garde Festival (which had been banned in Budapest); István Haraszty´s kinetic statues (banned in Budapest); 1972-73: performances by the banned Kassák Theater; 1973: the first exhibition of visual poetry in Hungary; etc.
"Add to" art
Artpool P60 - 14-27 October, 2000 - Reconstruction and an interactive exhibition of the network projects of the last twenty years. In the co-operative artworks produced by more artists chance has a great part.
THE CONSISTENT WAY OF READING
2001. Artpool P60 - 19-30 March 2001 - (reactive and trans-contextualized information) - takes seriously the call in Vilem Flusser´s essay titled The Writing. The exhibit does not prove or disprove anything but considers everything by way of conversations.
SOUND/IMAGE - THE VISIBLE SOUND
2002. Artpool P60 - 28 May 2002 - Exhibition - event from the works of Endre Szkárosi on his 50th birthday featuring the S.K.¥ (Zsolt Kovács - Zsolt Sőrés) Recollected images from the video-archives of the Új Hölgyfutár.
THE BOOK (±)SYMMETRY-VIOLATION
Artpool P60 / Doubt Club - 26 June 2002 - exhibition-event - (basic examples of the book as a medium) - each symmetry-violation is a process combined with induction of informations. The small damages of symmetry drive every type of development. A totally symmetric universe couldn´t have been be able to grow.
EVERGREEN DOUBTS
Liszt Ferenc square - 18 October - 3 November 2002 - the texts of 28 poets, philosophers and orators exhibited in advertisement-like typography. The validity of their words span over 2,500 years and deal with the subjects of art, science and politics.
ANNIVERSARIES OF THE THIRD KIND
2003. Artpool P60 - 14-31 March 2003 - The exhibition consists of the documents piled up by chance or collected purposely at Artpool archives recalling art events which took place between 14-31 March in the past 30 years. - As Robert Filliou puts it, "in the eternal network", in "the space of permanent creation" the memories of third kind make each day an anniversary that is how life becomes "La Fête Permanente / a permanent celebration".
Tricolor Party
Artpool P60 - 23 May 2003 - The identity action of the public, taking photos wearing Endre Tót´s tricolor baseball cap with the words: "Raise Hungarian avant-garde!" - Tricolor Eat Art: food with paprika, aperitif refreshing drinks, and the famous "Absolute Fluxus Pear" of Kapolcs (© Galántai pálinka)
LOOK OUT, THE MEMES ARE COMING!
Artpool P60 - 7, 12, 14, 19, 21 November 2003 - Zoltán Sebők`s infectious lectures on cultural infection - It is concerned with the information patterns named memes which biologist Richard Dawkins had originally defined as the cultural equivalents to genes and viruses. Putting forward his ideas in his book The Selfish Gene, Dawkins himself has created an effective meme, infecting the thoughts of his fellow-researchers.
information as invisible MaSter
2004. Műcsarnok - 27 January 2004 - (an improbable combination of elements) a lecture with internet presentation by György Galántai - Visual, sound and text documents about Miklós Erdély and Sándor Altorjai, the people who can exercise mutual influence.
"ME - rhizome"
Artpool P60 - 28 December, 2004 - ME-mories of re-ME-mbrance - What might be the "inculturation" of faith in art? - Miklós Erdély (1994 - 2004)
videoshots and websites
exits
2005. Artpool P60 - 21 March - 1 April, 2005 - Artpool's tenth participation in the program of the
25 years old Budapest Spring Fesztival - a Budapest Spring Festival unimaginable in 1981 - an exhibition-event from the documents of the institute-experiments of the "underground art"
THE LIVING WEB SPACE (AS A TRAINING GROUND)
Artpool P60 - 22 September, 2005 - a gentle presentation of the information boom - as the finissage of the exhibition ART REGAINED György Galántai presents the newest document of the Artpool P60 project
AID-CONCEPT
Gödör Klub, Budapest - 1-2 October, 2005 - Festival for the preservation of the documents of underground art - Press conference about the uncertain future of the Artpool Art Research Center due to the lack of financial support for its operation. - Symposium on the Hungarian underground art in the 70's and 80's, it's international context and significance, it's research and the possibilities of it's preservation. etc.
Hommage à Charles Tamko Sirato
2007. Artpool P60 - 21, 23, 28, 30 March, 4 and 6 April 2007 - Art in Hungarian, or művészet magyarul (m+m=N+1) - lecture-events and background exhibition - According to the The Dimensionist Manifesto by Charles Sirato (1936) the formula "N + 1" expresses the Dimensionist development of the arts. The essence of Dimensionism: Deductive with respect to the past. Inductive with respect to the future. Alive in the present.
Hommage à Marcel Duchamp
Artpool P60 - 28 June 2007 - Marcel Duchamp, the inventor of the 100% recycling art,
one of the signatories of Charles Tamko Sirato's Dimensionist Manifesto
was born 120 years ago - first public presentation of the non edited documentary video of the
1987 DUCHAMP SYMPOSIUM - inauguration of the website of the 100th anniversary events
IN THE SPIRIT OF MARCEL DUCHAMP
Fluxus East - Budapest
2008. Ludwig Múzeum - Museum of Contemporary Art - 18 April - 1 June, 2008 - FLUXUS NETWORKS IN CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE - As an interactive exhibition, FLUXUS EAST aims to facilitate a profound encounter with ideas, works and texts - some presented as facsimiles to permit intense study. Thanks to Artpool and György Galántai it is possible to play at Flux Ping Pong [video], and visitors are also invited to explore the Poipoidrome by Robert Filliou (originally presented in 1976 at the Young Artists Club of Budapest and reconstructed by artpool in 1998). - The Budapest exhibition will be completed with Flux Flags from 1992, documents of Ben Vautier's podium and captions at Liszt Ferenc square in 1993 (BENvauTiER), as well as a selection from Artpool's Fluxus videos and the website Fluxus@Artpool.
1st Little Hungarian Metro Biennial
Artpool P60 - 10 - 22 October 2008 - An exhibition of works by students of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts - The exhibition concept: a looped sound recording of texts is audible in the exhibition space. Since all the exhibited works relate to this soundscape, it provides an unusual clue for the visitor to approach works of visual art.
30 YEARS OF ARTPOOL (and its antecedents)
2009. Artpool P60 - 25 March - 20 April 2009 - Springtime projection, exhibition-event: selection from the visual and sound material of Artpool's Hungarian and international projects, video-installation of documents and artworks.
Galántai House, directly
K55, Kapolcs - 22 - 26 July 2009 - Artpool/Kapolcs memori/al - The "Newkapolcs Gallery" project (1991-1995), holonically (as a whole and a part) organised in György Galántai's house was an important part in the 30-year-long history of Artpool. The prolonged renovation of the house was finished in 2009, and, to celebrate this, the house appears in the exhibition with an integral approach as a holonic memori/al in the exhibition space opening from the street.
TYPOPASS – Critical design and conceptual typography
Platán Gallery - 21 October - 4 November 2009 - How does critical design emerge, the attempt to counter consumer culture with a social consciousness with the intention not only to serve customers but also to shape visual culture, even the whole of culture and society? - Exhibition with a selection of material partly from the collection of Artpool.
The Systematisation of Avant-Garde Arts
2010. Book presentation in Írók Boltja at 25 May 2010 - Charles Tamkó Sirató was born 105 years ago and died 30 years ago. In 1965, i.e. 45 years ago, he compiled his memories of the history, background and follow-up of The Dimensionist Manifesto, published in Paris in 1936.
fluxus (sport) events
2011. K55-AAS, Kapolcs, Kossuth utca 55 (Alternative Art Space) - 22-31 July 2011 - personal holarchy - holonic men - interactive installation, project of Artpool Art Research Center, work by György Galántai.
