The Woman Behind Artpool
Exhibition event organized on the occasion of Júlia Klaniczay's 70th birthday
June 11, 2024, Art Department (former studio of László Rajk)
Organizer / curator: Dóra Halasi
Consultant and curator of the documentary photographs presented at the exhibition: György Galántai.
The event was opened by Dóra Halasi, Artpool's long-standing collaborator, with a welcome speech
(the full text can be read here)
Guests attending the event and appearing in the photos:
Ágnes Bárdos Deák, Imre Barna, Géza Buda, László Földényi F., Zsuzsa G. Heller, Áron Gábor, Katalin Izinger, Maria Kamenetckaia, Gábor Klaniczay, Péter Klaniczay + Luca Klaniczay + Miklós Klaniczay, Judit Kopper, Márton Kristóf, László Lantos / Triceps, Balázs Lowack, Orsolya Mácsadi, Miklós Marschall, Éva Marton, Péter Máté, Viktória Monhor + Zoltán Balla + Benedek Balla, András Müllner, Márton Orosz, András Petőcz, Katalin Pikler, Andrea Pócsik, Judit Rajk, Zsuzsa Rónai, Márta Sarankó, János Sugár, Rita Szép, Tamás Szőnyei, Ádám Tábor, Rudolf Ungváry, Júlia Váradi and Zuzana Bartošová + Ladislav Snopko, as well as György Galántai, Dóra Halasi, and Júlia Klaniczay
Arranged according to thematic and chronological criteria in the three exhibition rooms of the Art Department, more than seventy contributions (videos, texts/writings, audio recordings, visual works, objects/installations) sent in memory of/in tribute to Júlia Klaniczay on her 70th birthday could be seen, heard and read.
Contributed to the event with memories, congratulations, text, pictures, sound, and video:
Zdenka Badovinac (text), József Balog (video), Csilla Bálint (video), Ágnes Bárdos Deák (record), Helene Baur – Andrea Neidhöfer (video), Vittore Baroni (stamp-graphic, record), Zuzana Bartošová (text), Julien Blaine (text), Jaap Blonk (graphics), Judit Bodor – Roddy Hunter (video), Karen Burke (video), Ádám Czirák (text), Ryosuke Cohen (photo), Katalin Cseh-Varga (video), Nina Czeglédy (text), Gábor Danyi (text), Pál Deréky (text), Pascal Dombis (video), Charles Dreyfus Pechkoff (text), Fernanda Fedi (graphics, photo), Éva Forgács (text), Földényi F. László (video), Nicola Frangione (text), Áron Gábor (graphics), Áron Gábor – Zsuzsa G. Heller (video), Gino Gini (graphics, photo), Klaus Groh (video), haha (video), Dóra Halasi (maquette), Miklós Haraszti (video), József Havasréti (video), Joël Hubaut (graphics, photo), Unknown Performers (vase with flower installation), István Kántor/Monty Cantsin (video), Anna Kárpáti (photography), Judit Kele (video), Jean-Jacques Lebel (text), Orsolya Mácsadi (text), Miklós Marschall (video), Éva Marton (radio interview), Péter Máté (text), Viktória Monhor (work clothes), András Müllner (text), Anonymous Author (photography), Jürgen O. Olbrich (graphics), Márton Orosz (video + text), Endre Lehel Paksi (video), Miklós Peternák (text, photography), András Petőcz (graphics), Andrea Pócsik (video), Barbara Rosenthal (video), Márta Sarankó (board game object), Zsolt Sőrés (video), Kristine Stiles (text), St.Tamás Turba (video), János Sugár (video), Tamás Szőnyei (video), György Szücs (photography), László Tölgyes (writing and music), Endre Tót (poetry), Júlia Váradi (radio interview/video), Tibor Várnagy (video)
We would like to thank Judit Rajk for welcoming this birthday event to the Art Department!
JÚLIA KLANICZAY Editor-in-chief at Akadémiai Kiadó from 1977 to 1992; co-founder (with György Galántai) of the illegal Artpool archive, launched in 1979. Head of the archive from its founding until 2020, from 1992 to 2020, director of the Artpool Art Research Center, which operated as an independent non-profit institution until 2015 and has since been an independent department of the Museum of Fine Arts (from 2021 as part of the Central European Art History Research Institute / KEMKI).
JÚLIA KLANICZAY is editor of Artpool publications (samizdat magazines, catalogues, books, online publications) and author and/or translator of numerous articles. She researches alternative art events and art forms of the 1970s and 1980s, with a particular focus on researching sources. She has participated in and/or assisted with numerous art projects created by György Galántai within the framework of Artpool.