Ms Julia Klaniczay

Júlia Klaniczay is cofounder of the illegal Artpool (with artist György Galántai in 1979), and since 1992 director of Artpool Art Research Center, operating till 2015 as a public nonprofit institution and since 2015 as a department of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. From 1977 to 1992 editor responsible of Akadémiai Kiadó, the publishing house of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and from the beginnings leader of Artpool's archives and editor in chief of all Artpool's publications: samizdats magazines, books, printed or online; elaborator of Artpool's databases; translator or author of several articles; researcher in the alternative art forms and activities of the 1970s and 1980s. From 1976 participant or assistant of many art projects concieved by György Galántai and realized in the framework of Artpool.