Tadeusz Rolke Archive at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

An archive of several tens of thousands of photographs representing the life’s work of one of the most acclaimed Polish photographers – Tadeusz Rolke. It comprises photoreports on the everyday and cultural life in Warsaw, fashion photography and documentation of avant-garde events from the mid-1950s until 1970, as well as photos depicting Polish society during the “carnival” of “Solidarity” in 1980, during the martial law, the transformation in 1989, and the alternative culture of the 1980s.

Ort:
- Warszawa Pańska 3, Poland
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1945
Besondere Beispiele:
- Eustachy and Matylda, photo, 1960

Tamás Szőnyei Poster Collection

Tamás Szőnyei worked as a music journalist in Budapest in the 1980s, and his poster collection documenting the underground music scene, especially new wave and punk, is one of the largest in Hungary. Posters were designed in a large part by the contemporary artists playing in the bands. This is a private collection that was digitized by Artpool Art Research Center, and the originals are regularly borrowed for thematic exhibitions in Hungary and elsewhere.

Ort:
- Budapest, Hungary
Themen:
- Bildende Kunst
- Musik (Rock, Punk, Alternative Musik, Klassik, etc.)
Gründungsdatum:
- 1978
Besondere Beispiele:
- Kistamás, László. Kontroll Csoport Concert, Mátyásföld, 1983. Poster
- Molnár, Gergely and István Rész. Anna Frank Memorial Evening by Spions, 1978. Poster

The Contemporary Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery

As the largest national public collection, the Contemporary Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery contains a significant number of Hungarian artworks made between 1945 and today. The acquisition of the collection can be divided into different phases: in certain periods the goal of what type of works to collect shifted in accordance with the actual cultural politics. Since the eighties, they extended the collection backward in time as well, so today they own thousands of pieces which were previously a blind spot due to political reasons, but relevant in terms of cultural opposition. The procurement process is still ongoing.

Ort:
- Budapest Szent György tér 2, Hungary 1014
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1974
Besondere Beispiele:
- Hajas, Tibor: Surface torturing III. (Fossils), photo, 1978
- Sándor Altorjai: Let Me Sink Upwards, painting, 1967

The Soft Geometry Archives

The Soft Geometry Archive was built up by Géza Perneczky in Cologne, Germany. The archive consists primarily of publications by artists since the 1970s and works from the art movements of late Fluxus, Mail Art, and visual and experimental poetry. The collection includes works by artists from all over the world, for instance Latin America and Japan. Works by East-European artists constitute about 25 percent of the content.

The photo collection of Lóránt Méhes

The photo collection of the painter Lóránt Méhes (“Zuzu”) portrays the personalities and events of the Budapest alternative art scene from the beginning of the seventies. The images arranged into scrap books in chronological order can be called social albums on the analogy of family albums, and present a composed, personal, visual imprint of the style of living of the nonconformist community.

Ort:
- Budapest Reáltanoda utca 9, Hungary 1053
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1985
Besondere Beispiele:
- Anonymus. Dixi at the terrace of Restaurant Kárpátia, 1969. Photo
- Méhes, Lóránt. Companionship, 1985. Photopainting