⚠️ Visitor Cards at the Archivum
Please note: unreturned cards will be charged. This change does not affect the Centrális Galéria—exhibitions and public programs remain freely accessible. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
⚠️ Visitor Cards at the Archivum
From April 20, 2026, a new security system will be introduced at the Blinken OSA Archivum. Access beyond reception (incl. Research Room) requires a visitor card. Please collect it on arrival and return it before leaving.
⚖️ What is “law” under socialism?
In 1970s Soviet Georgia, dissidents reimagined legality through culture, memory & writing—both aligning with and quietly challenging official norms.
📚 Visegrad Lecture Series | Apr 22
📚 Visegrad Lecture Series
🗓 Apr 22, 11:00 | 📍 Archivum + 💻 Online
⚖️ With the Law but in Our Own Way
Katie Sartania explores how 1970s Soviet Georgian intellectuals rethought legality through samizdat, literature & court cases.
🔗 archivum.org/events/with-...
🎭 Scripts as plans. Actors as workers. Stages as sites of ideology.
What happens when theatre meets central planning?
A talk on Hungarian-language theatre in socialist Romania—where creativity and control collide.
📚 Visegrad Lecture Series | Apr 22
📚 Visegrad Lecture Series
🗓 Apr 22, 11:00 | 📍 Archivum + 💻 Online
🎭 Theatre as a “factory” of socialist culture?
Eszter Szabó-Reznek explores Hungarian theatre in socialist Romania—between planning, bureaucracy & art.
🔗 archivum.org/events/betwe...
ADOPT Srebrenica and its Documentation Center preserve personal histories, photographs, and documents of prewar life in Srebrenica—using memory and dialogue to help rebuild community ties.
April 13, 11:00 AM: archivum.org/events/609
How can archives become spaces of dialogue, memory, and healing? Join us for a guest lecture with Bekir Halilović and Valentina Gagić of ADOPT Srebrenica on April 13 at Blinken OSA Archivum.
archivum.org/events/609
Building Détente from Below looks at underground philosophy seminars in late-socialist Czechoslovakia and the East–West academic networks they created — from Prague living rooms to Oxford and Cambridge.
📍 Blinken OSA Archivum / 💻 Join via Zoom: shorturl.at/eg7QJ
📚 Visegrad Scholarship at OSA – Upcoming Presentation
On April 8, 2026 at 11:00 AM, Dr Bethan Winter will speak at Blinken OSA Archivum on Building Détente from Below: Underground Philosophy Seminars and East–West Co-Operation from Oxford to Prague, 1979–1993.
🔗 archivum.org/hu/events/bu...
Now open for research: the Black Box Foundation’s textual archive, including documents on its operations, international connections, and state surveillance—an essential resource for studying Hungary’s recent past and independent media.
Founded in 1988, the Black Box Foundation was Hungary’s first independent film collective, documenting voices and events absent from state media. Its newly accessible textual archive sheds light on its work, networks, and editorial principles.
The Black Box Foundation’s textual records are now accessible at the Blinken OSA Archivum, offering new insight into Hungary’s transition and independent media history.
More: archivum.org/news/black-b...
How did religious dissidents think, write, and connect under surveillance? This talk explores seminar networks around Obshchina in 1970s Moscow & Leningrad—spaces where ideas, trust, and texts built alternative intellectual communities.
🔗 archivum.org/events/relig...
📢 Visegrad Scholarship at OSA
🗓 Apr 1, 11:00
📍 Blinken OSA Archivum (Budapest) + Zoom
Talk: Religious Seminars & the Ethics of Truth
by Ivan Sosnovskii
Late Soviet underground faith, samizdat & counter-publics 🧠📚
🔗 shorturl.at/eg7QJ
Do you dare to play?
An exhibition on play & democracy in East Berlin, featuring Spielwagen Berlin 1 + a weekend play space for children.
Apr 10–May 24, 2026 | Free
Blinken OSA Archivum, Budapest
Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00
Do you dare to play?
Explore play & democracy in East Berlin through the story of Spielwagen Berlin 1. Exhibition + weekend play space for kids.
Apr 10–May 24, 2026 | Free entry
Blinken OSA Archivum, Budapest
archivum.org/events/do-yo...
Do you dare to play?
An exhibition on play & democracy in East Berlin, featuring Spielwagen Berlin 1 + a weekend play space for children.
Apr 10–May 24, 2026 | Free
Blinken OSA Archivum, Budapest
Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00
Do you dare to play?
Explore play & democracy in East Berlin through the story of Spielwagen Berlin 1. Exhibition + weekend play space for kids.
Apr 10–May 24, 2026 | Free entry
Blinken OSA Archivum, Budapest
archivum.org/events/do-yo...
A full house in the research room: researchers of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA have begun their work in the archives.
More about the scholarship: archivum.org/academics/vi...
The seminar is organised by Université de Lausanne, Blinken OSA Archivum & la Contemporaine
🗣 Language: English
📍 Hybrid event (Paris + online)
Post 4
📅 Deadline: 9 April 2026
Submit:
• proposal (max. 300 characters)
• short CV
More: archivum.org/news/cf-p-al...
We invite archivists, activists & researchers to reflect on:
• collecting activist archives
• defining the scope of collections
• institutional collaboration
• legal & ethical challenges in preserving activist documentation.
📢 Call for Proposals: Alternative Media & Digital Activism
How should institutions collect and preserve the archives of activism and alternative media?
Join the ACTIVATE WP4 seminar on 8 June 2026 at la Contemporaine (Paris) + online.
👇 More details in the next posts.
[RECHERCHE] Dans le cadre du projet #Activate, avec @unil.bsky.social et @archivum.org, la Contemporaine lance un appel à participation pour l'atelier "médias alternatifs et activisme numérique : quels documents collecter, pour qui et avec qui ?". Réponses avant le 09/04 : lcbam.hypotheses.org/2929
The conversation was moderated by curator Nóra Lukács. The photos show moments from the closing event and artist talk. Thanks to everyone who visited the exhibition and joined the program!
#SonyaSchönberger #ArtistTalk #ContemporaryArt #ExhibitionClosing
We closed the exhibition “Shifting Perspectives: If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag. The Story of a West Berlin Fellowship” with a great artist talk. Thank you to everyone who joined us! Berlin-based artist Sonya Schönberger spoke about her approach to archives and materials in her work.
Last chance this week to see “Shifting Perspectives: If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag.” at the Central Gallery.
The exhibition traces the story of a West Berlin fellowship program during the Cold War.
Closing: March 8, 2026.
📷 Photos by Dániel Végel
Last days to visit the exhibition “Shifting Perspectives: If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag. The Story of a West Berlin Fellowship.”
It explores a unique West Berlin artists’ residency program during the Cold War.
Curators: Nóra Lukács and Melanie Roumiguière.
archivum.org/events/shift...
Closing event this Sunday!
Archive and Materiality – Artist talk with Sonya Schönberger
Freedom Trap, Pt. 6
Berlin-based artist Sonya Schönberger will speak about her artistic approach to archives and materials.
March 8, 2026, 4:00 PM
More info:
archivum.org/events/archi...
Visegrad Scholarship at OSA – Upcoming Presentation
March 4, 2026, 11:00
Blinken OSA Archivum & Zoom
Lucien Turczan-Lipets examines Ukrainian-Jewish intellectual life in Kyiv, 1956–1985, shaped by the aftermath of WWII, Stalinism, the Holocaust, and the Holodomor.