Knoll Galleries Vienna + Budapest started the research project on the topic of collecting in former socialist countries in 2009. Our project ´Eastern European Collectors´ makes researches in 9 countries (or probably 10, if including Russia), working with experts from each country and searches the similar and different patterns and the roles of art collections and collecting, and showing people and institutions from each country their influence how the local art scenes in recent years transformed in terms of collecting art.