COURAGE

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The content of the Grgo Šore Goli Otok Collection became a part of the "Memories of the 20^th Century" online exhibition. This online exhibition also includes the testimonies of other people, among whom some were victims of totalitarian systems and dictatorships in Croatia during the 20^th century. Their testimonies illustrate the key moments of 20^th century Croatian history. The virtual exhibition contains over 900 items.

The largest retrospective exhibition of Tomislav Gotovac was held in the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka from September 22 to November 26, 2017, entitled “Tomislav Gotovac: Crisis Anticipator – Don't Ask Where We're Going.” The occasion for the exhibition was the relocation of the Museum to a new larger area in the heart of the city. About 100 of Gotovac's works were presented at the exhibition, which makes the exhibition the larger ever dedicated to this conceptual artist, director and performer, and the works from the ad hoc Homage to Josip Broz Tito Collection were also on display.

The retrospective exhibition "Braco Dimitrijević - Retrospective" was held in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, from April 27 to June 21 2017. The exhibition covered all of the most important phases of Braco Dimitrijević's work, from his beginnings in the 1960s through the "Casual Passer-by" works and "Post Historical Triptych" to the latest works from the "LASCAUX 3000" cycle. A major part of the exhibition consist of works from the "Casual Passer-by" cycle, and the most important of these are those included in the COURAGE Project ad hoc "Casual Passer-by" Collection.

The exhibition aroused great interest not only in art circles, but also in the media and the general public, and was also accompanied with a respectable catalogue of almost 400 pages, in which works from the ad hoc "The Casual Passer-by" Collection were also presented.

This exhibition was presented to the public for the first time between 4 and 10 December 2017, in the Constantin Brâncuşi Exhibition Hall, which is located in the Palace of the Parliament of Romania. The opening coincided with the Annual Conference of the European Network of Official Authorities in Charge of the Secret Police Files, when CNSAS handed the presidency of the network to the Committee for Disclosing the Documents and Announcing Affiliation of Bulgarian Citizens to the State Security and the Intelligence Services of the Bulgarian National Army. The exhibition illustrated the methods of controlling and keeping writers under surveillance, while trying to reassess the meaning of so-called “resistance though culture” in communist Romania. The items selected for the exhibition originated from the Confiscated Manuscripts Collection and from other fonds of the CNSAS Archives: Penal Fonds, Informative Fonds, Network Fonds, and Documentary Fonds. Three different types of materials illustrated the theme of confiscated manuscripts: archival documents, visual images, and extracts from interviews with writers in the Oral History Collection at CNSAS. The topics illustrated by these items were censorship, writers’ trials in which confiscated manuscripts were used as incriminating evidence, and writers’ surveillance by the secret police. The main items of the exhibition were, however, the writers’ confiscated manuscripts: unpublished prose, poems, pieces of poetry, essays, diaries, memoirs, daily notes, and annotated censored publications.