Ten Years After

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International photo and document exhibition in Galeria Centralis on the 10th anniversary of the fall of communism in East European countries

It’s been ten years since the East European one-party regimes collapsed and were replaced by democratic governments. The new exhibition of the Open Society Archives’ Galeria Centralis has attempted to contrast the hopes and expectations of ten years before with the reality of the past decade. The first part of the exhibit presented the most important, euphoric moments of the year of transition: 1989. The decisive events, and their precedents from each East European country were recollected with the help of photos and archival documents (most of which are in English). The second part of the exhibition featured a collection of 153 artistic photographs by 27 artists from 15 different countries, assembled by the Prague-based English language magazine Transitions. These photos provided insight into the process of change by conjuring up the most significant events of the past decade as well as the difficulties of everyday life and the darker side of the transition. The pictures were selected out of a thousand entries by curator Árpád Gerecsey, Director of World Press Photo, Karolína Hůlová, photo/art editor of Transitions and Kees Schaepman, executive editor of Transitions. The first part of the show, dealing with the year 1989, has been invited to the World Economic Forum’s Central and Eastern European Economic Summit, which is to take place in Salzburg, from 30 June to 2 July. Open: June 24, 1999 - August 1, 1999.

Following the processing of both the hard copy and digital (or digitized) records of the exhibition, they will be accessible for research at OSA's Research Room. Besides the exhibited material, the collection is to include material that were assembled by the curators during the research period of the exhibition, and also the ones that document the show itself.

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