"Mozgó Világ." Collection of a Prohibited Journal

The collection of the banned journal “Mozgó Világ” (World in Move), emerging out of a retrospective exhibition, provides unique insight into the stormy history that started to unfold in the 1970s as the outcome of the decision of young writers, artists, and scholars to regain their right to radically criticize the regime, to organize their own groups, and to engage in some overt conflicts, if needed.

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Marian Kropyvnytskyi Personal Archive

The Kropyvnytskyi archive is a private collection of documents related to the activities of the Kyiv Art Institute in the second half of the 1920s. The institute's rector, Ivan Vrona, appointed Marian Kropyvnytskyi an assistant for the research office of the experimental visual arts, headed by the avant-garde painter Kazimir Malevich. Kropyvnytskyi served as Malevich's personal assistant in 1928-1930. The archive contains minutes of meetings, Kropyvnytskyi's notes of Malevich's lectures, and copies of Malevich's unpublished lectures. Since the archive of the Institute was destroyed, the Kropyvnytskyi collection is probably the only collection that contains documents about the Institute's history in the interwar period.

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Lokacija:
- Kyiv Khreschatyk Street 15, Ukraine
Teme:
Datum osnivanja:
- 1927
Reprezentativni primjerci:
- Kazimir Malevich's article on the Faculty of Formal-Technical Disciplines at the Kyiv Art Institute
- Kazimir Malevich's article on the New Academy of Arts

Mimesis Collection

The special collection of the Ignác Tragor Museum, Vác. The Mimesis Collection consists of figurative paintings reflecting on the social reality of the period between 1960 and 1989.

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Lokacija:
- Vác Zrínyi Miklós utca 41, Hungary 2600
Teme:
- lijepe umjetnosti
- vizualne umjetnosti
Datum osnivanja:
- 1989
Reprezentativni primjerci:
- Birkás, Ákos. Ordinary Activity, 1973-74. Painting
- Szentjóby, Tamás. Aspects on the question: “Who is an artist?” 1970, photo, drawing

Modern Art Collection, Gallery of Szombathely

The modern collection of the Gallery of Szombathely eloquently exemplifies the complex relationship between official culture and the culture of dissent during the socialist period. The genealogy of the collection is inseparable from the conservation of the leftist counter-culture of the Horthy era, especially of the legacy of the left-wing painter Gyula Derkovits, who was born in Szombathely. The collection of artworks was based on the notion of “progress,” and it became increasingly intense in the 1970s, but it only partly followed the socialist canon. It also initiated the emergence of new and critical trends that were in opposition to the official culture politics.

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Lokacija:
- Szombathely Rákóczi Ferenc utca 12, Hungary 9700
Teme:
Datum osnivanja:
- 1950
Reprezentativni primjerci:
- Lakner, László: Identity I. (Rope) 1969, painting and object
- Szenes, Zsuzsa: What was an utilitarian article now is a decor, 1975. Woolwork

Museum of Lies Collection

The Museum of Lies was founded by Reinhard Zabka, the Dadaist artist also known as Richard von Gigantikow, in 1990 during the political changes of the GDR. It came about by the private initiative of the artist, who was active in the non-conformist and avant-garde art scene during the GDR period. Its origins lie in an art house established by the artist during the GDR in Babe, in the state of Brandenburg. From its very beginning, the museum has been a non-conformist project that has aimed at breaking taboos of content just as those of institutions. After relocating to a rural area of Saxony, the art house was transformed into its current form of the Museum of Lies.

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Lokacija:
- Radebeul, Germany
Teme:
Datum osnivanja:
- 1990
Reprezentativni primjerci:
- Cathedral of Socialism
- Interieur Underground