COURAGE

connecting collections

Art of Exchange was the widest selection of the Exchange Gallery’s collection. The exhibition co-organized by Profile Foundation and Wilanów Palace Museum was the fourth installment in the Latent Capital series, showing leading private collections of modern and contemporary art. The presentation was to expose private art collections, to highlight their role as a visual narrative about the history of art different from the points of view proposed by official institutions. Besides the iconic works of twentieth-century avant-garde – paintings, sculpture, drawings, photos, objects – the exhibition showed ethnographic artifacts and flea-market curiosities hoarded by Robakowski. The event included also film screenings centered around avant-garde films, video art, and performance art. The exhibition catalog presented a large selection of the collection.

Curator: Bożena Czubak

From 3 July to 28 July 2013, the exhibition ‘Tahavaatepeegel’ (Rear-View Mirror) ran at Tartu Art House. It was a retrospective exhibition of work by the Konrad Mägi Studio, a free academy for artistic education founded by artists who studied at the old Pallas Art School. It was founded in 1988 by Indrek Hirv, who invited Kaja Kärner to teach there. A year later, Heldur Viires joined as a teacher. After the death of Kärner in 1998, Viires was the only teacher at the studio.

In this exhibition, 54 paintings by 35 artists were exhibited. The collection of Heldur Viires was represented by six works of art by Kaja Kärner, as well as two monotypes by Viires.

In 2013, the Libri Prohibiti Collection of Czech and Slovak Samizdat periodicals from the years 1948–1989 was listed by UNESCO in its Memory of the World (MOW) Register. It is the largest collection in the world. According to the MOW Registry, "the completeness and uniqueness of a large number of documents attest to the fight against the communist totalitarian regime and is importance for the study of the history of the twentieth century. It is also important from the standpoint of the history of professional journalism, science and ethics."

The Memory of the World Register, founded in 1995, lists documentary heritage which has been recommended by the International Advisory Committee, and endorsed by the Director-General of UNESCO, as corresponding to the selection criteria regarding world significance and outstanding universal value.

In 2013, the grandchildren of Franjo Tuđman decided to launch the website Dr Franjo Tuđman - The First Croatian President, as the official website of their grandfather. They believe that it is to observe Tuđman's intellectual and political evolution, and especially his idea of creating an independent and democratic Croatia which grew from the 1960s, almost three decades before the crisis and the collapse of the Yugoslav communist system in the late 1980s. On the other hand, they are dissatisfied with certain perceptions of Tuđman's political actions, and the fact that the first Croatian democratically elected president has not in any way been institutionally commemorated - with, e.g., a museum or institute. The website illustrates the way in which Tuđman succeeded in achieving his ideas in practice, which were unacceptable in the Yugoslav Communist system. The site is published and edited by Dejan Košutić, Siniša Košutić, Nina Tuđman Vuković, Ivana Tuđman, Ana-Marija Tuđman and Nera Tuđman.