Lomholt Mail Art Archive

Niels Lomholt aka Lomholt Formular Press, Lene Aagaard Denhart and the web company Oncotype in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art have created a website for a rare comprehensive archive of mail art from the 1970s and 1980s.

Mail art is a network that became popular in the 1970s, where artists exchanged projects, books, postcards and letters which were often small artworks. Niels Lomholt was an active participant in the network (1970-1985) and exchanged projects with artists from Northern and Southern Europe, Eastern Europe and many other countries.

Lomholt Mail Art Archive consists of these thousands of items, from a time when the world looked slightly different. It was before the digital revolution, when the internet gave some totally new opportunities for global communication. It was at a time when the world looked very much larger, where mobility was not as easy and cheap as today. And it was at a time where there was an Eastern Europe that did not have the same artistic freedoms which artists in Western Europe had, but perhaps still shared the same interests.

All this is reflected in Lomholt Mail Art Archive, which also holds great artistic surplus in the narrative of political and social conditions in the 1970s. 

See the site at www.lomholtmailartarchive.dk

The website is designed by Lene Aagaard Denhart, og implemented by Oncotype (www.oncotype.dk)