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In October 2016 Karol Radziszewski presented the activities of the Queer Archives Institute with the "pop-up intervention". He created his temporary office in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and showed the archival and visual materials on gender, queer, sexuality and minority strategies in Poland.  

Karol Radziszewski’s artist-in-residence was part of the Performing the Museum program, project is co-funded by the EU’s Creative Europe programme, by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia.

Queer Archives Institute special appearance in MSU permanent collections was organised in collaboration with Queer Zagreb Season.

Jan Lopatka (1940–1993) was a Czech literary critic and historian, and signatory of Charter 77. To mark a symposium about his life and work, which was organised by the literary magazine Revolver Revue in June 2016 in Prague, a 17-minutes long time-lapse documentary called “Jan Lopatka: Zaostření pozornosti” (“Jan Lopatka: Focusing attention”), devoted to this important personality of Czech literary history, was created by Petr Kotyk and Bedřich Ludvík. In this film, edited by Bedřich Ludvík, recordings with Jan Lopatka made by Petr Kotyk in the 1990s as part of the Authentic project for the “Videotéka a fonotéka” (video and audio library) of the Literary Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature (LA PNP) were used. The film also covers Lopatka’s memories of the Czechoslovak samizdat magazine “Kritický sborník” (Critical Proceedings), which Lopatka edited during the second half of the 1980s, and his reflections on the meaning of the samizdat volumes.

Of the events of the recent past, it is worth mentioning the Notes from the Underground exhibition held in 2016 at the Muzeum Sztuki Łódź and then reopened at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 2018, where tapes of the Artpool Radio could be heard.