Gen Z. All at Once

The exhibition brings together twenty young artists living in eleven countries of Eastern Europe – a region shaped not by a single shared memory, but by inherited discontinuities, delayed futures, and permanent transition. These artists do not approach history as a closed narrative, nor do they seek to resolve it. Instead, they inhabit a present shaped by instability.

Work updates, holiday selfies, breaking news, war reports, online shopping: spheres that were once separated – and often considered irreconcilable – now mingle seamlessly within everyday digital experience. Desire, dread, pleasure, empathy, and distraction coexist on the same screen, often within the same instant.

Generation Z is the first generation to have grown up entirely within this condition. Contradictions no longer require resolution. What once appeared incompatible – public and private, intimacy and exposure, play and anxiety, production and leisure – has become fluid, unstable, and permanently intertwined. The present moment functions as a dense field in which heterogeneous impulses, affects, and images collide, while also offering a shelter from an accelerated and uncertain future.

Navigating effortlessly between roles, profiles, and personas, at once singular and multiple, these artists keep oppositions in tension rather than dissolving them: digital and physical, material and immaterial, reason and emotion, vulnerability and control. Identity no longer operates as a stable core but as an ongoing process of self-production in interaction with others. The self emerges as collective and relational, deeply embedded in networks of attention and affect. Everything is all at once.