Nature doesn't make separate rules, it has great unified rules (Albert Szent-Györgyi)
Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest
György Galántai, Dóra Halasi, Júlia Klaniczay, Viktor Kótun and Kristóf Nagy presented Artpool to museum professionals working at the Museum of Fine Arts and its affiliate institutions (Hungarian National Gallery, Hopp Ferenc Museum of Asiatic Arts, Vasarely Museum).
FUGA, Budapest
Project exhibition of the design and art theory students of MOME, curator: Kata Oltai (video of the opening) (video interview with György Galántai)
Documents from Artpool’s collection
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The exhibition presented the collection as a tool of sustaining a utopian consciousness. Curators: Zdenka Badovinac and Bojana Piškur
At the press opening Júlia Klaniczay presented the photo panel of images from György Galántai’s performance Homage to Vera Mukhina (1980) donated to the Arteast 2000+ collection on the occasion of the Grammar of Freedom exhibition of 2015 held in Moscow.
Júlia Klaniczay and György Galántai with the members of the Irwin art group at the opening.
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Walls with 264 music posters from Artpool’s collection
Archive section: 3D animation featuring the Artpool Art Research Center
Artpool P60, Budapest
Degree project of the students of the MA programme in Contemporary Art Theory and Curatorial Studies at the Art Theory Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts.
Exhibiting artists: Lőrinc Borsos, János Brückner, Gruppo Tökmag, Csaba Nemes, Adrienn Seemann, György Szimán – Curators: Róza Tekla Szilágyi, Tamás Don, Krisztina Varga
Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Computer prints of György Galántai (1990)
The overarching summary of the history of computer art in Hungary was first undertaken by an exhibition organised in France in 1990 with the participation of nine invited artists. The show Les Artistes hongrois et l’ordinateur (Hungarian Artists and the Computer) curated byJoël Boutteville, a prominent expert on new media art, was held as part of the series titled Fête de l’image (The Festival of Images) in Lille and encompassed all the areas of the fledgling Hungarian digital art (computer graphics and animation) in the final years of socialism. Boutteville selected some 120 works by nine Hungarian artists (András Böröcz, Áron Gábor, György Galántai, Ágnes Hegedűs, Llászló Kiss, Hannawati P. Ráden, László Révész László, János Sugár and Tamás Waliczky). This material was also exhibited at two other venues between 1990 and 1991 (Étampes and Helsinki).
The large photo prints, videos and computer animations documenting the beginnings of Hungarian computer art and believed to be lost for 25 years were found and returned to Hungary with the invaluable help rendered by Artpool.
György Galántai’s computer animation of 1990 reanimated on an old ATARI ST
The exhibition is the reconstruction of the 1990 show in Lille, France contextualised by the Hungarian computer art events of the time (Digitart 1986, 1990; Dialogue Ordinaire 1987 etc.) using numerous documents and photographs, in part coming from Artpool’s collection, as well as devices from that period.
Curator: Márton Orosz, art historian at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Júlia Klaniczay’s exhibition promo in Klub Radio, 4 July 2016
Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Warsaw, Poland
Documents from the Artpool Archive linked to Robert Filliou and Joachim Pfeufer’s exhibition Poipoidrom, mounted in 1976 in Budapest.
Based on fine art and architectural projects, the Warsaw exhibition sought to demonstrate how open-ended and participatory forms of learning – including montage techniques, physical exercises, utopian architectural models, non-verbal communication games and community actions – inspire the imagination and contribute to the formation of experimental and democratic communities.
The exhibition displayed works and references from the oeuvres of the following artists, architects and theoreticians: Josef Albers, Imre Bak, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Lygia Clark, Guy Debord, Miklós Erdély, Escuela de Valparaíso, Robert Filliou and Joachim Pfeufer, Paulo Freire, Yona Friedman, R. Buckminster Fuller, Lujza Gecser, Group 143, Oskar Hansen, Hannah Higgins, Ivan Illich, the INDIGO Group, Asger Jorn, Paul Klee, Attila Kotányi, Dóra Maurer, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Alma Siedhoff-Buscher, the SIGMA Group, Tamás Szentjóby, and Judit Vas / Ferenc Mérei.
The exhibition was a sequel to the shows held at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig (2014) and the open office of tranzit.hu (2015).
Curators: Dóra Hegyi and Zsuzsa László (tranzit.hu)
Contributing co-curators: Aleksandra Kędziorek, Franciska Zólyom
Publication presenting the project: Creativity Exercises: Emancipatory Pedagogies in Art and Beyond
Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade, Serbia
A Case Study on the Artpool Art Research Center was on view as part of the Interim Study Room.
The poster of the Artpool Art Research Center in the exhibition’s Interim Study Room section.
The exhibition explores how the role played in the production, presentation and collection of contemporary art by museums, galleries and other public institutions as well as by artists and the institutions they founded changed in the period of political change.
Project concept: Alenka Gregorič and Suzana Milevska
Curatorial research team: Zoran Erić, Alenka Gregorič, Vit Havránek, Suzana Milevska, Vladimir Vidmar and Raluca Voinea.
The Interim Study Room, a multi-part section of the project, functioned as a research archive comprising art initiatives and projects devoted to various art practices and new discourses, as well as exhibition venues led by artists and alternative and critical venues that were conceived and planned but not legalised.
Case studies: Jugoslovenska dokumenta (1984–1989), Sarajevo; Under Construction – Sarajevo SCCA, 1999; Hosting Moderna Galerija!, Ljubljana, (2007–2009); Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest; Podroom (1978–80), Zagreb; Miklós Erdély & the Indigo Group, Budapest, etc.
Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest
“Secrets of Art Archives – What Can Be Found in the Artpool Archive?” – tours between 6 p.m. and 12 p.m. starting every hour
Artpool Art Research Center introduced by Dóra Halasi and Kristóf Nagy
GALÁNTAI HOUSE, Kapolcs
Works by: György Galántai, Miklós Mécs and Hajnalka Tulisz,
Laca and the Postflesh, and participants of the EvoMUSART2006 (video)
Changing portal music / sound curtain / Fluxus and minimal music formations
“The two endpoints in the integrated space constructed by the multimedia installation are the physical sound object and a film created by a generative algorithm. The basic sensation emerging out of this is composed further by the articulation of the Hungarian language manifest both audibly and visually.” György Galántai, curator
22–31 July 2016
AREA 51, Kapolcs
“Area 51” in Kapolcs is a place of intellectual/spiritual immersion where the perceptive ‘consumers’ of art have the opportunity to have the peak experience of liberating their minds according to the extent to which they desire it.
open-air signpost exhibition
SIGNPOST EXHIBITION – from Haikus to visual poetry;
Background events:
sound poetry, phonic poetry, concrete poetry, poetry performance, video poetry, digital poetry
The Facebook page of the event with videos and images
ms2, Łódź, Poland
With the participation of Hungarian artists (György Galántai, Tamás Király, Katalin Ladik, Tibor Szemző, Zuzu-Vető, A.E. Committee) the exhibition explores the close and dynamic relations that developed in the period of Communism between the visual artists and musicians in Eastern Europe.
The exhibition includes four sound sculptures by György Galántai.
Directed Chance, 1985
Memory Mill, 1985
Oriented Half-Wheel, 1985
The Step Roots’ Motor, 1985
as well as the 1985 VHK Galloping Coroners) concert in Galántai sculptures (Petőfi Events Hall)
and the issues of Artpool Letter and Artpool Radio casettes
Curators: David Crowley and Daniel Muzyczuk
(According to Artportal’s circular question, the Ꝉódź exhibition was among the top five in 2016)
Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest
The research team studies the action art of socialist countries and the activities of social criticism executed by artists living under political repression.
Júlia Klaniczay introducing Artpool and presenting research opportunities
Participants: Ádám Czirák (Berlin), Andrea Euringer-Bátorová (Bratislava), Barbara Gronau (Berlin), Astrid Hackel (Berlin), Andrej Mircev (Osijek), Angelika Richter (Berlin/Oldenburg)
Publication on the project:
Aktionskunst jenseits des Eisernen Vorhang. Künstlerische Kritik in Zeiten politischer Repression
Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, Switzerland
Who writes the history of performance art? The event-centred character of performance art and its emphasis on action pose a challenge to historiography and its institutions. Hence, Eastern European performance art can be understood not only as a performative history but also as the history of art action.
The congress deals with contemporary and historical strategies that artists, critics and researchers applied and thus wrote the history of performance art.
Júlia Klaniczay at the entrance of Cabaret Voltaire
Presentation by Júlia Klaniczay:
Performing for the present, documenting for the future – Artpool and performance art
Special issue based on the lectures held at the conference: Apparatus, no. 10. (2020)
Auditorium di Sant’Apollonia, Florence, Italy
Júlia Klaniczay’s presentation in the Auditorium di Sant’Apollonia
Visiting Maurizio Nannucci in the Zona Archive
13 December 2016–25 February 2017
tranzit.sk, Bratislava, Slovakia
The exhibition titled Sitting Together presented a connection between the parallel chronologies of Eastern European art scenes that seemed accidental then but in retrospect can be described as paradigmatic.
Authors of the works, films and documents at the exhibition: Peter Bartoš, László Beke, Gábor Bódy – Marcel Odenbach, Drozdik Orshi, Ľubomír Ďurček, Miklós Erdély, Petra Feriancová, Stano Filko, Květa Fulierová, György Galántai, Group 143, Ágnes Háy, György Jovánovics, Július Koller, Anna Kutera, KwieKulik, Dóra Maurer, Gyula Pauer, Vladimír Popovič, Rudolf Sikora, Petr Štembera, Tamás Szentjóby, Endre Tót, Péter Türk, Jiří Valoch and others
The exhibition included the reconstruction of the Meeting of Czech, Slovak and Hungarian Artists organised in 1972 in György Galántai’s Chapel Studio, partly using photo documents loaned by Artpool.
Project by Zsuzsa László and Petra Feriancová
