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2012Bright, bold wood-block prints from Polish character designer Roman Klonek
2012
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2019Oliwia Bober's illustrations combine Polish folklore and her personal feelings
2019
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2020Agnieszka Sejud reflects on fake news in Poland in her frenzied collages
2020
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2011Ilona Karwinska: Polish Cold War Neon
2011
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2019Viacheslav Poliakov shoots the “folk-baroque-industrial mess” of Ukraine and Poland
2019
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1925Diplôme d'honneur. Golikoff (USSR). 1925
1925
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2007Soviet pocket watch (2)
2007
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2007Soviet pocket watch (1)
2007
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2007Soviet pocket watch
2007
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2015Pocket watch in display case, Collegium Maius Krakow
2015
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2014Gold Chaika Pocket Watch made in the USSR
2014
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2015Pocket watch, Collegium Maius Krakow (01)
2015
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2009Warsaw Made
2009
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2014Photographs taken inside the Soviet cosmonaut training centre, Star City
2014
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2017The photographer archiving South Africa’s black lesbian community
2017
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2025Karabo Mooki celebrates South Africa’s first Black show jumper
2025
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2017Photographer Zuza Krajewska's fragile portraits of Polish young offenders
2017
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2018A tribute to the repurposed churches of the Soviet Union
2018
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2022“Brotherhood, community and togetherness”: Nick van Tiem documents a community of skaters in Cape Town
2022
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2019Polish graphic designer Natalia Pawlak on bad taste and reinterpreting Polish kitsch
2019
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2022Photographer Alex Nazari explores Armenian history through its ubiquitous Soviet-era car, the Lada
2022
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2012Rafal Milach has caught our eye with stunning images of Poland and beyond
2012
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2016Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia
2016
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2013Check out Polish creative Formallina's knitted heroes calendar!
2013
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2016Polish illustrator Gosia Herba interprets myths and legends in pastel tones
2016
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2015Dan Wieden Is... We spend a week stalking the advertising mogul around a conference in Cape Town
2015
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2016Lynnie Zulu decorates her exotic characters in punchy hues and patterns
2016
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2017Russian photographer Turkina Faso on the “post-Soviet aesthetic”
2017
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2014Dillon Marsh visualises how much copper was produced in South African mines
2014
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2015Polish creative Lukasz Pachalko’s graphic design project addresses the issues surrounding dyslexia
2015
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2013Polish born, Barcelona-based photographer Asia Chmielewska is a real talent
2013
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2012Soviet bus stops captured by worldly photographer Christopher Herwig
2012
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2013South African photographer Johno Mellish creates incredible images
2013
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2015Cute and scary and great work from Polish artist Paweł Mildner
2015
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2018The history of the hotel Venets: a 22-storey metaphor for Soviet utopia
2018
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2014Opinion: Why it's the perfect time to explore Cape Town's creative community
2014
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2019A chat with Nikita Teryoshin about his time spent with the Boxing Grannies of Johannesburg
2019
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2015Our pick of the talks from 2014's Design Indaba event in Cape Town
2015
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2013Lee Mawdsley shoots Qatar for CBQ and make us want to emigrate, fast.
2013
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2015Cool South African school kids photographed by Anastasia Korosteleva
2015
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2024Karabo Mooki documents South Africa’s punk rock movement, debunking stereotypes of the genre
2024
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2013Opinion: Away from Design Indaba, South Africa's graphics tell a tense story
2013
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2012Introducing...The ultra-bold African supergraphics of illustrator Lynnie Zulu
2012
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2019Through portraiture, photographer Justin Keene sets up a dialogue with South Africa
2019
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2016Photographer Kristin-Lee Moolman captures the characters of Johannesburg's creative scene
2016
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2015Our highlights from the first day of the Design Indaba event in Cape Town
2015
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2022“Skateboarding feels a lot like therapy”: Karabo Mooki shares stories of South Africa’s all-female skate group, Island Gals
2022
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2019The Hayward shines a light on South Africa’s born-free generation
2019
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2018“A desire for the forbidden would be equal to treason”: Photographer Nikolay Bakharev on life in the USSR (NSFW)
2018
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2023Discover South Africa’s rich culinary heritage with Hannerie Visser’s 100+ Flavours project
2023
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2014Photography: Andrew Miksys' photographs of the discos in Soviet era buildings
2014
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2016Warsaw creative Peter Tarka creates tidy CGI illustrations
2016
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2011What's On: Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography
2011
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2017A Soviet vision of the future: the legacy and influence of Tekhikia – Molodezhi magazine
2017
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2012Byzantine landscapes in brilliant detail from South Africa-based illustrator Jean de Wet
2012
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2014Marc Shoul photographs Johannesburg domestics walking their employers' dogs
2014
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2014Stunning Polish Op-art works created in isolation finally celebrated
2014
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2017A glimpse into the fascinating and incredibly odd world of Soviet-era sanatoriums
2017
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2015The Polish studio creating a stir on Warsaw’s art scene
2015
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2011Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography
2011
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2017An animated story of survival during apartheid in South Africa
2017
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2015Eerie monochrome photographs at Poland's last Brutalist train station by Michał Łuczak
2015
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2024This Home of Ours: Ayesha Kazim’s photographic time capsule of Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap region
2024
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2020Concrete Citizens documents the residents of Soviet brutalist buildings in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova
2020
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2014Polish illustrator Gosia Herba combines a unique style with a Cubist slant
2014
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2012A mightily impressive portfolio from Polish illustrator Marta Slawinska
2012
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2016Polish illustrator Jaroslaw Danilenko’s comic-like still life illustrations
2016
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2014Design Indaba 2014: Day two of design wisdom live from Cape Town
2014
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2014Lynnie Zulu's new solo show colourfully explores the female form
2014
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2018Thom Pierce on using photography to amplify the protests of a rural South African community
2018
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2014Design Indaba 2014: Rolling coverage from Cape Town's big design event
2014
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2012The Soviet Union goes neon in these mid-century illustrations of the future
2012