1980s GENERATION

Exhibition by Young Hungarian Photographers

Month of Photography 2015, Balassi Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria

“1980s Generation / snapshot-society” is a project initiated in 2012, in Budapest Hungary, as a multidisciplinary workshop of sociologists and artists, which then led to an exhibition at the PhotoMonth Budapest 2012 and to this website The focus is the diverse social phenomena and social problems that concern the 20 to 30 year-olds of today in CEE. This online platform was created to host artists’ works from different countries to reflect on the specific issues of this peculiar generation born in socialist times but grown up in democracies (i.e. in the 1980s).

Artists: Zsuzsa Bakonyi, Gergely Barcza, Zsuzsi Flohr, Emőke Kerekes, Katalin Illés, Márk Martinkó, Ildikó Péter, Kata Somogyvári, Réka Szent-Iványi, Katalin Vágó-Lévai – Csaba Vágó, Enikő Várai, István Virág.

Curator: Edit Barta, Assistant Curator: Anna Balázs

The exhibition was open to the public:
28/05/2015 – 30/06/2015