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

Museum of Romani Culture Collections

The Museum of Romani Culture in Brno contains unique materials on the life, history and culture of Roma in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and map the social, political and cultural activities of the minority. This collection is closely focused on the Roma minority and is unique in the Czech Republic. The collections also include materials mapping the life of the Roma minority during the Communist regime and their emancipation efforts.

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Lokacija:
- Bratislavská 67, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Teme:
Datum osnivanja:
- 1991
Reprezentativni primjerci:
- Memorandum of the Union of Gypsies-Roma on Essential questions of Roma Issues, 1970
- Painting "The Devil (Communists) took the Gypsy violin" by Rudolf Dzurko

Polish Performance Archive of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Polish artists and circles involved in performance art were in many ways critical of Polish People's Republic authorities. They would often be involved in the so-called “second circuit” of publishers and galleries that functioned without public support and independently from national institutions. Performers’ actions themselves were also loaded critically not only towards the authoritarian practices of the “people’s” government, but also the patriarchal and hierarchical aspects of Polish culture.
The Archive of Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw presents the history of Polish performance art. It uses an attractive web portal to publish photographic and video recordings of artistic actions along with commentaries from curators. The Archive is also engaged in research and promotion activities, and is participating in the preparation of Museum’s permanent exhibition.

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Lokacija:
- Warszawa Pańska 3, Poland
Teme:
Datum osnivanja:
- 2015
Reprezentativni primjerci:
- Marsz. Performance.
- Samoidentyfikacja. Performance and series of photomontages.

Polja (Fields), magazine for culture and art collection

Polja magazine [Fields in English], is one of the longest running periodicals in the former Yugoslavia, and was first published in 1955 in Novi Sad. Throughout 506 issues, Polja has covered important periods in Yugoslav cultural history and has featured young authors in the fields of literature, cultural theory, and literary and film criticism. The magazine has a history of providing a platform for social criticism, as it became inseparable from the youth-led organization Tribina mladih [Tribune of Youth] which criticized the social and political situation in the country and the culture of its time.

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Lokacija:
- Novi Sad, Serbia
Teme:
Datum osnivanja:
- 1955
Reprezentativni primjerci:
- Death in light of Marxism, issue 236

Roger Loewig Collection

In 1963 the painter and graphic artist Roger Loewig was arrested following his first privately organised exhibition in East-Berlin. Throughout the regime, Loewig denied socialist realism artistic forms of production, while his artworks were considered subversive. After almost one year of imprisonment, Loewig was released in the GDR with the support from the Protestant Church from West Germany. Loewig’s release on three years probation could not be prevented. It was only 1972 that the artist could leave the GDR and settled in West-Berlin. Following his death in 1997, Loewig’s private fine-arts collection was bestowed by the Roger Loewig Association. This was founded in 1998 in Frankfurt Oder. Since 2000 the fine-arts legacy of the artist is preserved by the Federal Foundation for Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship. This aims at facilitating the scientific documentation and preservation of Loewig' artistic legacy. The literary and biographical works are currently on hold at the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

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Lokacija:
- 10117 Berlin Kronenstraße 5
Teme:
Datum osnivanja:
- 1998
Reprezentativni primjerci:
- Lithography "Couple behind a fence"
- Painting "There is still chant under the broken bridge"