n\osztalgia is a joint project of two magazines, Plotki (Berlin) and Anthropolis (Budapest). Established within the framework of the German-Hungarian cultural year 2007, the aim of n\osztalgia is to reflect how post-socialist societies remember the times until 1989 – questioning who remembers, what is remembered and how it is remembered

Young artists, photographers, scholars and writers from both sides of the “Iron Curtain” jointly investigated and critically questioned the wave of (n)ostalgia in different (South and Central) Eastern European countries from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. The results of the research made by a generation "in-between", are presented in visual artworks, sound installations and essays. Have a look on the various ways of remembering the socialist past here or in our print publication n\osztalgia - ways of revisiting the socialist past .



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n\osztalgia draws special attention on how recent history is remembered from below and from the sideways. Therefore, everybody is invited to join the project by contributing to the n\osztalgia encyclopedia. The encyclopedia is an open-ended, hyper-textual assembly of texts, pictures and sounds in various genres – small scholarly essays, polemic articles, critical reflections, personal recollections, collages, photo essays, acoustic memories – it can be pop, it can be art, it can be academic.

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The artworks that were elaborated in the frames of the project were presented in an exhibition at the Collegium Hungaricum in Berlin (September 28 – November 4, 2007). Click on the images…