Launched as part of the cultural politics of the time, the Studio was founded in 1958, as the youth section of the Art Fund, as an institution to further the professional integration of recently graduated visual artists. The studio was dependent on the mother institution financially and bureaucratically, but it enjoyed partial autonomy through its elected board members. A unique rule – the upper age limit of 35 years – ensured the continuous revitalization of membership. Beginning in the 1970s, autodidacts were also admitted as members, which made it possible to integrate outsiders into the official artistic milieu, thus breaking the hegemony of the academy. This also meant an expansion of the accepted ways of working. The collection, which contains primarily the works of former members, illustrates the conflicts of artistic autonomy and centralized cultural politics so typical of the era.

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Lokacija:
- Budapest Rottenbiller utca 35, Hungary 1077
Teme:
- lijepe umjetnosti
Datum osnivanja:
- 1958
Reprezentativni primjerci:
- Samu, Géza: Grandma yarns, 1975, sculpture
- Sarkadi, Péter: Rainbow, 1979

Archives of National Commission of Solidarity Trade Union

National Commission of "Solidarity" Trade Union collects, develops, stores, and publishes archival materials of the Independent Self-governing Labour Union "Solidarity”, primarily from the 1976-1990 period. The Archives are located at the National Commission of "Solidarity" head office and serve the purpose of documenting the social phenomenon of democratic opposition in Poland, in particular in the 1980s. Apart from documents it holds audio and video recordings, photographs, and other items. The Archives continuously add and digitise new, both private and institutional, collections from various parts of Poland.

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Lokacija:
- Gdańsk, Poland
Teme:
- demokratska opozicija
- pokreti za ljudska prava
Datum osnivanja:
- 1991
Reprezentativni primjerci:

Archives of Suppressed Literature in the GDR

The collection of “suppressed literature“ is the result of an academic project that questioned the established canon of literary history in the GDR and aims to morally rehabilitate the authors of this suppressed literature. The archive is held by the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship.

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Lokacija:
- 10117 Berlin Kronenstraße 5
Teme:
Datum osnivanja:
- 2000
Reprezentativni primjerci:
- Personal note by Ralf-Günter Krolkiewicz, 1984
- Prison notebook of Edeltraud Eckert, 1953-1955

Archives of Weeks of Christian Culture / Artists’ Priesthood

The Weeks of Christian Culture and the Artists’ Priesthood were the very important cultural initiatives of the Polish Catholic Church, organised since the 1970s. They were the first nation-wide platform for artists of various professions, who were given a chance to speak freely and to show their works to the society – regardless of their beliefs. The participants had the opportunity to interact with independent culture, prohibited or absent from the official circulation. The collection includes both the documents on the initiatives’ history and the works of art created by its participants.

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Lokacija:
- Zbuczyn, Poland
Teme:
Datum osnivanja:
- 1975
Reprezentativni primjerci:
- Press Clippings about the Weeks of Christian Culture

Archives of the Jesuit Order Hungary

The Hungarian Provincial Archive of the Society of Jesus holds sources on the members of the forbidden and persecuted Hungarian Jesuit Order (1950–1990). The archival documents represent the Jesuit monks’ efforts to preserve their identity in the face of pressures from the Communist dictatorship.

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Lokacija:
- Budapest Horánszky utca 20, Hungary 1085
Teme:
Datum osnivanja:
- 1934
Reprezentativni primjerci:
- Jámbor, László OSJ. My Memoirs, ca. 1963. Manuscript