Borderline Case – Contemporary Reflections on Central-Eastern European Identity

On behalf of the MODEM Modern and Contemporary Art Centre we kindly invite you to the opening event of our latest exhibition called Borderline Case on 22nd January 2022, Saturday.

In some aspects Borderline Case is the continuation of the 2018 art exhibition “Time of our lives?”, which reviewed the works of emerging Hungarian artists. The exhibition puts on display the works of fifteen young artists from five countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Romania), most of which were made for this occasion. The title Borderline Case was inspired by the novel by Péter Hunčík, a psychiatrist of Hungarian origin who lives in Slovakia, presenting the 20 th -century history of the region through the story of the inhabitants of a small Slovak border town with a mixed population. One the one hand, the term suggests that setting clear-cut boundaries has always been a crucial question in Central-Eastern Europe. On the other hand, it has always been hard to decide whether the region belongs to the West or to the East. The title was chosen specifically because it does not contain the slightly self-ironic stereotype that compares the region to the “West”.

Silvia AMANCEI & Bogdan ARMANU
BOZZAI Dániel & MÁTÉ Dániel
Vasile CÂTÂRÂU
Jakub CHOMA
Megan DOMINESCU
Olga DZIUBAK
ERMÉNYI Mátyás
MOLNÁR Judit Lilla
PAZNIAK Uladizmir
PINTEROVA Renata
PRÍLUČÍK David
RUSICKA IRMINA
SIT Peter
SMUTNA Martiná
ŽÁK Jiřij

Curator: DON Tamás

Free admission!