KwieKulik is the name of an artistic duo formed by Zofia Kulik and Przemysław Kwiek. For twenty years they created performance, conceptual and process art, with politically engaged and critical undertones.
Simultaneously, since the late 1960s, they regularly documented the artistic life of Poland, focusing on ephemeral phenomena. Currently the KwieKulik Archive is an enormous set of visual and film materials, publications, and works of art. By Zofia Kulik’s effort it was converted into an archive-piece, a collection which itself became a work of art.

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Atrašanās vieta:
- Łomianki Pionierów 22, Poland 05-092
Temati:
Izveidošanas datums:
- 1972
Nozīmīgi vienumi:
- Activities on the Head, performance, 1978
- Activities with Dobromierz, photo series, 1972-1974

Lithuanian National Art Gallery

The National Gallery of Art in Lithuania holds a collection of artworks from the 20th century. The collection includes paintings, sculptures and prints by artists who worked in Soviet Lithuania, as well as by artists who lived abroad. During the postwar period, the style of Socialist Realism was imposed on artists who remained in Lithuania. From the 1960s onwards, the main goals of Lithuanian artists were to preserve the national identity and continue the modernist tradition. With no active or direct links with Western art, artists developed individual versions of Realism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Abstraction, and other tendencies in modern art. Some of these works can be ascribed to the cultural opposition.

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Atrašanās vieta:
- Vilnius Konstitucijos prospektas 22, Lithuania 09309
Temati:
- tēlotājmāksla
Izveidošanas datums:
- 1993
Nozīmīgi vienumi:
- Antanas Gudaitis triptych "M.K. Čiurlioniui" ( M. K. Čiurlionis Note, 1962)
- Kazimiera Zimblytė's Balta kompozicija (White Composition)

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 The archive contains minutes of meetings, Kropyvnytskyi's notes of Malevich's lectures, and copies of Malevich's unpublished lectures.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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Atrašanās vieta:
- Kyiv Khreschatyk Street 15, Ukraine
Temati:
Izveidošanas datums:
- 1927
Nozīmīgi vienumi:
- 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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Atrašanās vieta:
- Vác Zrínyi Miklós utca 41, Hungary 2600
Temati:
- Vizuālā māksla
- tēlotājmāksla
Izveidošanas datums:
- 1989
Nozīmīgi vienumi:
- 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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Atrašanās vieta:
- Szombathely Rákóczi Ferenc utca 12, Hungary 9700
Temati:
Izveidošanas datums:
- 1950
Nozīmīgi vienumi:
- Lakner, László: Identity I. (Rope) 1969, painting and object
- Szenes, Zsuzsa: What was an utilitarian article now is a decor, 1975. Woolwork