Born in transition

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.