Lifting the Curtain investigates the role of Central European architecture over the past century by searching for alternative perspectives to expanding and revising existing narratives -from the beginning of the 20th century to the adaptations in the post-war period, and its reflection in the post-socialist condition of the region. Lively architectural culture and intense transnational collaborations in this part of Europe are still largely absent from both the "Western" and local architectural discourses. Although the transformative stories of modernity are often results of crossing national borders, disciplinary confines or institutional boundaries, they do not fit easily in the current narratives of universal modernism, its national variants and peripheries. ln this exhibition, publication and research the stories from across the borders of Austria, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia (which succeeded former Yugoslavia) are investigated. Lifting the Curtain traces an international network of people, ideas, institutions, technical solutions, legislation and encounters that allow to fill in the gaps of current historiographies. It consists of fragments and paths on a map that still needs to be drawn filed in six groups -Experiments, Collectives, Transfers, Encounters, Research and Publics.