Sweet 60s is a long term research and exhibition cooperation between art- and educational institutions as well as media working in Europe, West and Central Asia and North Africa. Involving a particular group of experimentally orientated initiatives, researchers and media in the regions, Sweet 60s investigates still hidden territories of the revolutionary period of the 1960s.While the ancient art and colonial histories of West Asia and the South Mediterranean countries of the Middle East and North Africa are familiar enough to an interested public in Europe, knowledge about Modernisms and neo- avant-garde in this wider postwar Europe is still very limited.This applies especially to the period of the 1960s: Conceptualism in the Caucasus, the impact of urban avantgardes in the Middle East and on the Arab peninsula, the neo avant-garde visual cultures of the decolonizing Maghreb – all these are stories still to be locally researched and translocally told; histories not yet canonized, nor even locally known. One concern of Sweet 60s is to document and present this period in its marked originality and to mediate this to an international professional audience as well as to local and international general publics.Researching, documenting and displaying this epoch apears all the more urgent, now that so many witnesses are disappearing, and their archives vanish with them. The urgency of the project comes not just out of an historic interest, but is too driven by a political current. To hold these histories of urban emancipatory movements and artistic practices of the 1960s visible may form a point of reference for an internationalist, liberal and open young urban elite in the countries, living in an environment that is often affected by authoritarianisms and nationalisms of all kinds. Sweet 60s will be realized in a series of research platforms, educational programs, documentation and archiving activities as well as exhibitions and print and electronic publications.