Gen Z. Everything at Once

The exhibition features twenty young artists living in eleven Eastern European countries – a region shaped not by shared memory, but by inherited ruptures, deferred futures, and a constant state of transition. These artists do not view history as a finished narrative and do not seek to resolve it. Rather, they live in a present marked by instability. Work messages, holiday selfies, the day's hottest news, war reports, online shopping – areas that were once separate and often considered incompatible, now seamlessly intertwine in daily digital life. Desires, fear, pleasure, empathy, and distraction coexist on a single screen, often simultaneously. Generation Z is the first generation to have grown up under such conditions from the very beginning. Contradictions no longer demand resolution. What once seemed incompatible – public and private, intimacy and openness, play and anxiety, work and leisure – has long become fluid, unstable, and intertwined. The present acts as a dense field where various impulses, affects, and images collide; at the same time, it becomes a refuge from an accelerating and uncertain future. Easily switching from one role, profile, and identity to another, these artists maintain the tension of opposites rather than dissipating it: digital and physical space, materiality and immateriality, mind and emotions, vulnerability and control. Identity is no longer a stable core, but an endless self-creation in interaction with others. The self is collective, based on relationships, embedded in networks of attention and affect. Everything at once.

Adresas: MO muziejus