A Soros Alapítvány iratai egyedülálló betekintést nyújtanak az 1980-as évek független, a hivatalos kultúrától eltérő, sőt, azzal nem egyszer nyíltan szemben álló kezdeményezések történetébe. Az Alapítványt ugyan nem ezek dokumentálására hozták létre: célja a független kultúra támogatása, nem pedig megörökítése volt. Ám a tevékenysége során keletkezett iratok egyben óhatatlanul dokumentálták is e szándék megvalósulását, s értékes kortörténeti gyűjteményként maradtak fenn. Összességükben pedig egy fontos ellen-kulturális mintát dokumentálnak: a központosított, a pártállam által finanszírozott és felügyelt kultúrával szemben a magán támogatással fenntartott, szabad kezdeményezésekre épülő kultúra alternatív modelljét.
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Budapest Arany János utca 32, Hungary 1051
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The collection represents filmmakers in Soviet Lithuania who could escape Soviet censorship because they were not professionals, and therefore worked outside official structures. As a consequence, these artists were able to address sensitive social issues, and use avant-garde forms of expression that were forbidden in official contemporary cinematography.
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Vilnius O. Milašiaus gatvė 21, Lithuania 10102
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The "Special Collection" of the National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU) was established in 1937, and it contains some of the best works of the Ukrainian avant-garde and monumental art. The collection is comprised mostly of paintings and graphics that were considered inappropriate and unacceptable by the regime. They were collected by the secret police over a two-year period from museum in Kharkiv, Odesa, Kyiv and Poltava and were slated to be destroyed. However, they were preserved secretly in the museum, remaining hidden from the public eye during the Soviet period. Many of the artists represented in the collection were either repressed or executed for “formalism” or “bourgeois nationalism,” and many of their names were undeservedly forgotten until the late 1980s.
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This private collection contains the works of the composer Srđan Hofman, from the late 1960s to the present. Hofman is a representative of post-modernism in music, prominent as a composer of electro-acoustic music in Yugoslavia. Because of the nature of his music, the collection includes different media such as notes on Hofman’s compositions, audio recordings of their performances (both in electronic form and on records and tapes), together with the author’s publications and publications by others on his music. As the collection reflects Hofman’s entire oeuvre, we can trace its beginning from the end of 1960s and witness his continuing creative development.
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This collection contains the files of the State Security Service of the GDR that are preserved and administered by the Federal Commissioner for Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR (BstU). The surveillance records of the secret police represent a singular body of sources that offer unique glimpses into the cultural opposition to the GDR. The destruction of large numbers of these documents could only be averted in 1989/90 owing to the spirited actions of “Civil Committees”.
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Berlin Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 31, Germany 10178
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