Multiple Realities sets out a wide panorama of avant-garde artists in post-war Eastern Europe, bringing to light the ways in which they refused, circumvented, evaded and subverted official systems, making work full of wit, humour and irony. Drawing on visual art, performance, music and material culture, this exhibition volume gathers the work of close to a hundred artists from East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia. While it includes some canonical figures of the region, it gives particular prominence to lesser-known ones — women artists, artists' collectives, and those who explore identity through a queer lens.