EXHIBITION: 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.

Artists:

Aaron Roth, Ant Łakomsk, Denisa Langrová, Dzelde Mierkalne, Dominika Kováčiková, Helena Parys, Katrīna Biksone, Madlen Hirtentreu, Mara Verhoogt, Matyáš Tserhack Maláč, Miķelis Mūrnieks, Morta Jonynaitė, Nikola Balberčáková, Olga Krykun, Paula Tončić, Emilija Povilanskaitė, Sarah Nõmm, Tornike Gognadze, Valentina Várhelyi, Weronika Wysocka.

Curator
Michal Novotný

Co-curator
Marius Armonas

Coordinator
Dovilė Barcytė

Architect
Gabrielė Černiavskaja

Graphic designer
Ringailė Demšytė

Technician
Dominykas Šavelis.