Collection of Central and Eastern Europe

The Collection of Central and Eastern Europe was established in 2019. It focuses on artists who come from Central and Eastern Europe, whose works created after 2000 can be regarded as chefs-d’oeuvre. The purpose of the collection is to explore possible links and ties among authors from the V4 states (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland), followed by artists from Albania, Croatia, Serbia, Northern Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Furthermore, the collection seeks to foster interest in natural integration of various artistic expressions, positions, generations as well as geography-specific works of art. What is more, the collection aims to initiate exhibitions and research projects based on cooperation with artists and cultural institutions of the countries mentioned above. Finally, the collection will help integrate GMU into international context.

Usual interpretation of art and history follows two timelines – national and world. Such an interpretation is inevitably prone to lose interconnection and links. The methodology and collecting strategy of the Collection of Central and Eastern Europe uses a completely different apparatus for evaluation, which is primarily based on comparison of works by authors from similar cultural and geographical areas. It is based on the conviction that a national history cannot be viewed in isolation; it only becomes meaningful in the context of events and historical events surrounding it.

Stanisław Dróżdż, BEZ TYTUŁU [MIKRO – MAKRO], 1971-73

Stanisław Dróżdż, BEZ TYTUŁU [TAK NIE], 1970-77

Stanisław Dróżdż, OPTIMUM (MINIMAMUM – MAXIMUM), 1968-77

Wojciech Bruszewski, JĘZYK BALETOWY, 1973

Wojciech Bruszewski, TAŃCZY WOJCIECH BRUSZEWSKI, 1973

Józef Robakowski, O PALCACH, 1982

Józef Robakowski, MÓJ TEATRE, 1985

Józef Robakowski, DLA WARSZTATU FORMY FILMOWEJ: BLIŹEJ – DALEJ, 1984

Józef Robakowski, ŁÓDŹ KALISKA, 1986

Teresa Murak, ZASIEW [KOLEKCJA ROŚLINNA], 1975

Barbara Kozłowska, CIĄGŁE SPADANIE, 1968–1977

Jarosław Kozłowski, ĆWICZENIA Z MIERZENIA, 1969-2023

Grzegorz Klaman, WIELKA CZARNA GŁOWA, 1988

Grzegorz Klaman, KORYTO, 1988

Grzegorz Klaman, OBELISKY, 1988

Grzegorz Klaman, WIEŻA Z KOŚCI SŁONIOWEJ, 1990

Grzegorz Klaman, POLEND, 2006

Anna Kutera, FEMINIST PAINTING, 1973

Zbigniew Libera, WARIAT, 1984

Jerzy Truszkowski, TRIPTÝCH NARZĄD (NARZĄD NICOŚĆI), 1984

Jerzy Truszkowski, TRIPTÝCH NARZĄD (NARZĄD KOBIECI), 1984

Jerzy Truszkowski, TRIPTÝCH NARZĄD (NARZĄD MĘSKI), 1984

Ewa Ciepielewska, WEIRD LANDSCAPE, 1985

Alicja Żebrowska, PRZYPADKI HUMANITARNE, 1994

Bozena Grzyb-Jarodzka, PAWEŁ, 1993

Jerzy Kosałka, OCET [Z CYWKLU POSLKI POP-ART], 1986

Laďa Gažiová, UNTITLED, 2018

Laďa Gažiová, UNTITLED, 2016

Laďa Gažiová, UNTITLED, 2018

Laďa Gažiová, UNTITLED, 2016

Paweł Jarodzki, JOSEPH BEUYS – I LOVE YOU, 1986

Anna Daučíková, MOSCOW DIARY, 1989

Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucie Tkáčová, WHEN LABOUR BECOMES FORM, 2007

Bača Dalibor, CZ_SK_HU_D_PL, 2014 © Dalibor Bača

Alexey Klyuykov & Ladislava Gažiová, PORTRAIT OF FATHER WITH VIOLIN, 1939/2017

Vasil Artamonova & Alexey Kluykov, GARAGE, 2006

Ivars Gravlejs, KARLIS KALBERZS, 1912

Ivars Gravlejs, TOMS ROZEMBAUMS, 1963

Alice Nikitinová, BANNERS, 2010

Peter Rónai, ABC, 1988

Peter Rónai, ART OF THE 60′, 1988

Peter Rónai, BOLERO, 1989

Peter Rónai, DADA METRONOME, 1988

Peter Rónai, FORMATIONS, 1988

Peter Rónai, FORMATIONS (PC remake), 1998

Peter Rónai, OH OH OH, 1988

Peter Rónai, OBJECT SUBJECT, 1988

Peter Rónai, OBJECT ACTION, 1989

Peter Rónai, POCKET ART, 1989

Peter Rónai, PRINCIPLES OF MODERN ART, 1988

Erik Sikora, INVENTION OF NAVIGATION, 2007

Sláva Sobotovičová, SEARCHING FOR 1234, 2005