Event (general) of Justas Paleckis Collection

First documents Paleckis passed to the archive of the Institute of party history in 1963.

Location:
- Vilnius , Lithuania
Starting year of event:
- 1963

Čestmír Pechr: Mlyn, 1965, papier, tlač, 85 x 61 cm - UP P 2122

Graphic designer and scenographer Čestmír Pechr (1926 - 1999) had for 30 years actively shaped the look and design of Slovak National Theatre. His primary medium was the theartical poster. The author of the play Windmill (Mlyn 1963) was Zdeněk Mahler, a Czech musicologist, who sharply criticized the Soviet Union after 1968 and was an active participant in the Velvet Revolution.

Location:
- Bratislava Námestie Ľudovíta Štúra 1, Slovakia 811 02
Starting year of event:
- 1963
Main actors:
- Slovak National Gallery
Event of:
- Poster and Graphic Design Collection of the Slovak National Gallery

Acquisition of Justas Paleckis' documents

Paleckis submitted the first documents to the Archive of the Institute of Party History in 1963.

Location:
- Vilnius , Lithuania
Starting year of event:
- 1963
Main actors:
- Archive of the Party History Institute of Soviet Lithuania
- Paleckis, Justas
Event of:
- Justas Paleckis Collection

Foksal Gallery established, event, 1966

"Galeria Foksal" was founded in 1966 in Warsaw and co-created by art critics and artists with an interest in avant-garde art. It exhibited audiovisual installations, environments and other forms of conceptual art which broke with the traditional forms of painting and sculpture. However, the artists involved in the gallery were first and foremost among the pioneers of action art and happening. Due to their innovative character, many of these activities are now considered to be among the milestones of Polish modern art.

Founders of the gallery included critics Wiesław Borowski, Anka Ptaszkowska, and Mariusz Tchorek, as well as artists Henryk Stażewski, Zbigniew Gostomski, Edward Krasiński, and Roman Owidzki. Soon, Tadeusz Kantor joined the group of permanent collaborators. From the very beginning, the activities of the gallery and the artistic life of the circle of people involved in it were documented by two of the most acclaimed Polish photographers – Eustachy Kossakowski and Tadeusz Rolke.

Location:
- Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland
Starting year of event:
- 1966
Main actors:
Event of:
- Eustachy Kossakowski Archive
- Tadeusz Rolke Archive at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Exhibition: Performance of The Fluxus Group, 1966

During the Fluxus group tour of Eastern Europe in 1966, members of this American experimental group performed in the Museum of Czech Literature in Strahov monastery in Prague. The 1960s was witnessing a relative liberalization in cultural life in Czechoslovakia. At that time, information about international art, including Fluxus works, was accessible in Czech journals. There were also personal contacts between Czech artists (e.g. Jindřich Chalupecký, Milan Knížák, Jiří Kolář) and Fluxus. The performance in the Museum of Czech Literature was introduced by the Czech art critic and main organizer of this happening Jindřich Chalupecký. Mainly pieces by Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles were featured. Although it was an important event for Czech artists, enabling them to see what contemporary forms of action art looked like, the Czech audience did not really appreciate the performance.

Location:
- Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
Starting year of event:
- 1966
Main actors:
Event of:
- Art Collections at the Museum of Czech Literature