Benedikt Rejt Gallery and its collection were founded in the 1960s with the aim of collecting contemporary tendencies in visual arts. The gallery kept buying works by progressive artists even after 1968. The Benedikt Rejt Gallery owns a unique collection of constructivist pieces.

Location:
- Pivovarská 29, 440 01 Louny, Czech Republic
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Date of founding:
- 1965
Featured items:
- Filla, Emil. Slovak Folk Songs, 1948–1951. Paintings

Binka Zhelyazkova Film Collection

This ad-hoc collection consists of the work of Binka Zhelyazkova, an emblematic Bulgarian cinema director, as it is preserved in the Bulgarian National Film Archive, plus related materials. Zhelyazkova was among the first generation of professional Bulgarian cinematographers and one of the first female directors not only in Bulgaria, but in general. The collections informs not only about the work of this notable director but gives also insight into the development of Bulgarian cinema throughout the entire period of state socialism.

The collection comprises the films of Binka Zhelyazkova as well as extensive written materials (film documentation, reviews in the press etc.) and photographs. It outlines the contradictory and dramatic cultural situation in Bulgaria in the second half of the 20th century. The materials exemplify the pressure exerted on artists as well as of their opportunities of resistance and evasion, of maintaing personal and political integrity, and of creating socially engaged, vanguard cinema.

Location:
- Sofia ulitsa Gen. Yosif V. Gurko 36, Bulgaria 1000
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Date of founding:
- 1951
Featured items:
- Life Flows Quietly By.../Partisans, 1957. Film
- The Tied Up Balloon, 1967. Film

Black Church Restoration Ad Hoc Collection in Braşov

This collection tells the sinuous story of the restoration to its former glory of the Black Church, a Gothic monument of the highest significance for the collective identity of the Saxon community in Transylvania. Launched by the local German-speaking elite during the 1930s, the restoration of the Black Church in Braşov was carried out during the communist period despite such politically driven adversities as the atheist system of values and the policy of so-called of “urban systematisation,” which envisaged the demolition of an important part of the architectural heritage of Romania.

Location:
- Brașov Curtea Honterus 2, Romania
Topics:
- religious activism
- visual arts
Date of founding:
- 1937
Featured items:
- Schuller, Günther. Photographs from the Restoration of the Black Church, 1937–1978. Photo series
- The Records of the Presbytery Meetings of the Honterus Evangelical Parish in Braşov, 1977–1983, in German. File

Braşov - Oraşul Memorabil Collection

The Brașov–Orașul Memorabil Collection gathers more than 4,500 scanned copies of personal and official photos illustrating the history of this Transylvanian city, everyday life in Romania under communism, the programme of so-called urban systematisation conducted during Ceaușescu’s regime, and the popular resistance to this arbitrary policy.

Location:
- Braşov Șirul Ludwig van Beethoven 1, Romania 500123
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Date of founding:
- 2010
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Casual Passer-by Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb

The Casual Passer-By Collection by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian conceptual artist Braco Dimitrijević consists of eight photographs and two posters (portraits) created in Zagreb and Belgrade in 1971. The photographs and posters (portraits) were the foundation of his three performances from the "Casual Passer-by" series staged in Yugoslavia. They were subversive performances in which the author hung portraits of chance passers-by in public spaces, otherwise intended for executives, in this way questioning established forms of communication in the public space of a socialist state.

Location:
- Zagreb Avenija Dubrovnik 17, Croatia 10000
Topics:
- avant-garde, neo-avant-garde
- visual arts
Date of founding:
- 1978
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