The retrospective exhibition "Braco Dimitrijević - Retrospective" was held in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, from April 27 to June 21 2017. The exhibition covered all of the most important phases of Braco Dimitrijević's work, from his beginnings in the 1960s through the "Casual Passer-by" works and "Post Historical Triptych" to the latest works from the "LASCAUX 3000" cycle. A major part of the exhibition consist of works from the "Casual Passer-by" cycle, and the most important of these are those included in the COURAGE Project ad hoc "Casual Passer-by" Collection.

The exhibition aroused great interest not only in art circles, but also in the media and the general public, and was also accompanied with a respectable catalogue of almost 400 pages, in which works from the ad hoc "The Casual Passer-by" Collection were also presented.

Péter Halász’s archive was opened to researchers in 2017. On this occasion, an exhibition and roundtable were organized about the avantgarde writer, director, and actor’s works showing documents from the HP archive. The archive is based on Péter Halász’s so-called newspaper-theater performances, titled “Power Money Fame Beauty Love,” which was composed in the Kamra Theater in Budapest in 1994. The actors read the page-proofs of one of the main daily newspapers, Népszabadság (People’s Freedom), the night before publication. Inspired by the news, they created a play which was shown only once, the following evening, when the readers received the paper. 28 performances were created in this manner. In 2003, the undergraduates of the University of Theater and Film Arts of Budapest collected the articles, playbooks, reviews, and video records about the plays and based on these documents they made short films, as well. The whole documentation of this project was given to Artpool. This became the HP archive.

In 2015, the Centre for Democracy and Law Miko Tripalo launched "Tripalo Days in Sinj" as an event dedicated to scholarship and professional research. In 2017, Tripalo Days in Sinj addressed the topical theme of developed democracy/open society. The book by Miko Tripalo, The Open Society, was presented to the public for the first time. For the first time anywhere, the book presents Tripalo's notes and comments on the book by Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies.

Between 18 and 25 May 2017, the exhibition “Ucenicie printre arte: Sorin Costina colecționar” (Apprenticeship among arts: Sorin Costina collector) was held in Bucharest. The event was organised by the public cultural service ARCUB – the Cultural Centre of the City of Bucharest, which provided free public access to the exhibition. Among the artists whose works were on display were Corneliu Baba, Horia Bernea, Ștefan Bertalan, Paul Gherasim, Ion Grigorescu, Florin Mitroi, Paul Neagu, Florin Niculiu, Ion Dumitriu, Constantin Flondor, and Sorin Dumitrescu.

“Bringing together over forty of the most significant paintings in the Sorin Costina collection, the ARCUB exhibition is the first and most extensive presentation both of the diversity and scope of the collection and of its significance as a central landmark in what has, in time, proved to have become the canon of Romanian art of the 1970s to 1990s. The exhibition is thus the occasion not only for an overview of this canon, but also for lucid and critical investigation of the beliefs and aspirations, but also the practices, the clichés and stylistic and ideological hybridisations that marked Romania art in that troubled period of the last decades of the second millennium.” So states the official catalogue of this exhibition, which in the first half of 2017 was one of the cultural events of greatest resonance in the Romanian capital. With regard to the entire collection, the catalogue continues: “The man Sorin Costina and the distinctive history of Romanian culture and society in the second half of the twentieth century have caused the appearance in the most atypical place possible of the most typical collection of Romanian postwar art, in which all the key names of Romanian visual culture are to be found, with exceptional pieces. The Sorin Costina collection is a compendium of contemporary Romanian art. A certain part of Romanian art, after the 1960s.”

The largest retrospective exhibition of Tomislav Gotovac was held in the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka from September 22 to November 26, 2017, entitled “Tomislav Gotovac: Crisis Anticipator – Don't Ask Where We're Going.” The occasion for the exhibition was the relocation of the Museum to a new larger area in the heart of the city. About 100 of Gotovac's works were presented at the exhibition, which makes the exhibition the larger ever dedicated to this conceptual artist, director and performer, and the works from the ad hoc Homage to Josip Broz Tito Collection were also on display.

In the GDR, child care and education were firmly in the hands of the ruling SED party, but in 1950 the protestants were allowed to open a seminary on the Island of Hermannswerder, near Potsdam. First, it offered men, and from the 1950s women banned from attending regular secondary schools, the opportunity to obtain their secondary school leaving qualification (Abitur), enabling them to study theology or church music. In the GDR pupils were often prohibited from attending secondary schools for religious and/or political reasons. It was particularly common for the children of clergy members to attend the seminary.

In addition to a growth in the school size during the 1970s, the curriculum also changed. It then included more subjects that were not part of theological education, for example the possibility to focus on modern languages. From 1982, the school even adopted the curriculum of North Rhine–Westphalia (West Germany) as part of their leaving qualifications.

The State Security Service (Stasi) constantly had their eyes on the institute and commonly conducted searches for forbidden material. “Youth Sundays”, taking place yearly from 1949, were a huge thorn in the government’s side. During these events, young people discussed, away from the official socialist apparatus, how to lead a Christian life. Even an eventual ban could not stop the meetings as even without official announcements, meeting times were simply passed on by word-of-mouth.

Apart from “Youth Sundays”, the island was also home to church synods and later environmental gatherings and bicycle “star rides”. These are events in which the participants start at different locations, all meeting at the same spot in the centre thus forming a star. In Germany they have taken place since the 1970s to bring attention to different causes, such as the environment.