ABSTRACT
The transformation period initiated by the "velvet revolutions" was characterised by the fact that suddenly all strata – cultural, political, economic and social – were set in motion. At the same time, individual transformational trajectories had their specific features and different tempos and created their glossaries. The concerns regarding Westernisation that the Sevciks expressed in 1991 were manifest in Czech art with the first wave of post-communist nostalgia. While in Slovakia the need for a redefinition of the country's context led to the rise of nationalism, in Czech art of this period we are more likely to encounter an intimate variant of the politics of identity. The creation of transit in 2002 reflected a determination to challenge the structural deficit of cultural production in the countries of the former Eastern bloc. Twelve years of the transformation period with the slogan "converging on the West" had confirmed starkly that the historically conditioned "asymmetry" would not disappear overnight.
