Report Archive

Report, the magazine for the arts and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe, appeared in printed form from 2004 to 2009 ten times, in both English and German. Alongside interviews, portraits, statements and reports on social and political themes, the magazine provided information about events currently planned by tranzit and Kontakt. Each issue of was specially designed by visual artists.


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2004-2009 Focus: Art and Culture

Balkan Konsulat

Art and Culture: Not just a single History of Art

How have the culture scenes in the former East Bloc and in the countries that once made up Yugoslavia developed since 1989? A summary by Eastern
Europe experts Margarethe Makovec and Anton Lederer

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Konstantin Akinsha

"Bringing Communism to the Museum"

The Socland Foundation had invited the citizens of Warsaw to come there on that day and to donate exhibits for the future Museum of Communism to be housed in the cellars of the palace...

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Branislav Dimitrijević - Branco Dimitrijević

"The Drive Towards Discourse"

A period of European history reached its conclusion in 1989: communism. The formerly communist and socialist countries each experienced this epoch in different ways and thus also produced very divergent cultural and art scenes.

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 Sándor Pinczehelyi: "Hammer und Sichel", 1973

Art Histories, plural.

The Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski about his recently published book “Avant-gardes in the Shadow of Yalta. Art in Central and Eastern Europe 1945–1989".

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Andrea Zlatar

In active cooperation

Andrea Zlatar, specialist in literary studies and essayist, was town councillor with responsibility for cultural matters in Zagreb from 2001 to summer 2005. Dea Vidović spoke to her about politicians' ability to learn and the possibilities of partnerships in the so-called "independent cultural scene".

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issue5_Aufmacher_02 - Archiv Redaktionsbüro

Going it Alone – Persistently

The Swiss approach to financing culture in the European context, or: what kind of impact, if any, does the Swiss method of culture financing have on the cultural life of Central and Southeast Europe?
A commentary by Sibylle Birrer

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 - Archiv Redaktionsbuero

East/West Art, or the Possibility of a Better World

Birgit Langenberger and Manuela Hötzl in conversation with Marina Gržinić about her book “Fiction Reconstructed”, in which, starting from the contrast between East and West, she defines a new symbolic culture space.

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JERRY KOZA, SOMERSAULT, 2002, glass laminate, 65/71/96 cm - JERRY KOZA

Karel goes shopping

Czech products in the 1960s and 1970s between reform and normalisation.

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