Born in Transition
Born in Transition
27.06. - Studio Hannibal, Berlin
KINCSŐ BEDE | LŐRINC BORSOS | MÁRTON DÉS | ISTVÁN FELSMANN | MÁRK FRIDVALSZKI |
PÉTER LICHTER | ÁRON LŐDI | JUDIT LILLA MOLNÁR | ZSUZSANNA SIMON
curated by:
Katalin Kortmann Járay & Barnabás Zemlényi-Kovács
As 2025 marks a quarter of a century since the closure of the Nineties, BORN IN TRANSITION delves into the diverse intersections of childhood and politics during
the first decade after the collapse of communism, through the critical
reflections of Hungarian artists who were born and raised in this period
of profound paradigm shifts - across social, ideological, economic,
cultural, and technological spheres - still shaping our contemporary
reality.
On December 12, 1993, the Hungarian broadcast of the massively popular animated television series DuckTales was abruptly interrupted by the sudden announcement of Prime Minister
József Antall‘s death, creating a „flashbulb memory“ for a generation.
Mirroring how DuckTales‘s whimsical, childlike world traumatically collided with the stark political realities of the time,
the exhibition builds upon this dual perspective: the contrast and
interaction between individual and collective experiences, personal and
political, nostalgic and critical, child and adult viewpoints, the
zeitgeist of the Nineties and the Now, realised and failed futures,
generational optimism and collective disillusionment.