In terms of content, the focus lies on transnational networks of Soviet non-conformist art and artists from central europa of the international mail art scene of the 1970s/80s. In addition to materials from important informal artists from the Soviet Union, such as those of the artist couple Sergei Sigei/Ry Nikonova or the Moscow Conceptualists with their Moscow Archive for New Art (M.A.N.I. ), important legacies of key contacts in Western Europe will also be made accessible, including the legacy of the philosopher Boris Groys and his wife Natalia Nikitina, the editorial documents of the art magazine A-Ya, published in Paris, and the collection of central european alternative art gathered by western german art collector Klaus Groh. His collection alone contains of over two hundred archival boxes of artists' publications primarily from Poland, the former GDR and Czechoslovakia, as well as a smaller number from Hungary and the former Yugoslavia.