The exhibition, which can be considered the first stage of a longer and more comprehensive research project, draws primarily on the Ludwig Museum’s collection, in addition to a few invited artists, and through this, it maps the dystopian artistic assumptions and thought experiments of the Hungarian art scene over the past decades
The exhbition consideres neo-avant-garde not as a closed art historical phenomenon, but as a state of mind that continues to inform conceptual, intermedia, feminist, ecological, and activist positions in contemporary art. Building on dialogues across artist generations, the exhibition focuses on issues in common rather than linear chronology: memory, the body, leaving traces, and the possibilities of inner freedom in conditions of external constraint.
The exhibition examines walking as an art form, a narrative tool, and a critical practice through works, projects, and actions that use the everyday activity of walking as a means of discovery, exploration, resistance, and political action.