
György Cséka at the Fanzine Anatomy exhibition (photo: Imre Kiss)
From November 2024, György Cséka, aesthete, critic, and curator, took over as Head of Department at the Artpool Art Research Centre.
The goals and tasks remain the same as those that came with the institutionalization of the archive. That is, to preserve Artpool's mode of operation, traditions, spirit, and conceptual creativity while meeting the basic requirements of the larger parent institution and the museum profession. To simultaneously explore and research the art and way of thinking of the future, while also processing, documenting, digitizing, and making accessible in a database the immeasurable artistic and documentary treasures that already exist and have been collected thus far.
Of course, since Artpool is a living, breathing, or, more precisely, an active organism/archive, it is constantly in motion, with new materials and huge artistic legacies being added to the collection.
It is worth mentioning the estates of Endre Szkárosi and László Najmányi, the arrangement, processing, and exhibition of which leads the Artpool team to ever-new and exciting tasks.
However, these are just two of the numerous domestic and international projects in which the archive is actively involved, which are documented in detail, including on this platform.
György Cséka has been a member of the Artpool team since 2020, working in various roles and tasks, such as collection manager, data manager, and project manager.
Previously, he was the editor-in-chief and founder of Mai Manó Ház's online photography magazine Punkt, and before that he worked as a department head at the ELTE University Library. His areas of interest include contemporary photography and contemporary art.
His publications have appeared in Artmagazin, Artportal, Fotóművészet, Punkt, Új Művészet, and other magazines.
As a curator, he has organized exhibitions by artists such as Gergő Ámmer, Gabriella Cseh, Tamás Dezső, Richárd Kiss, Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss, and Liza Szabó, and has also been involved in major group exhibitions, mainly at the Institute of Contemporary Art – Dunaújváros (ICA-D). In 2021, he edited Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss's photo book "Solitude". His most recent study was published in 2025 in KEMKI's publication Stratification of an Archive: Possible Approaches to the Oeuvre of Péter Korniss.