The exhibition presents more than 150 works including photos, video-recordings, drawings, oil-paintings and multimedia displays by artists from central and eastern Europe, as well as from Armenia, Ukraine, Serbia, Bulgaria, Lithuania and former East Germany, said Zsolt Petranyi.
The main theme the 30 artists focus on is the economic challenges many of the countries faced after the change of regime, illusions after 1989 and the reality of the past 20 years, he added.
A video-work for instance by Romania's Mircea Cantor documents the Paris-based artist's cost-saving efforts of applying phosphor on both ends of a match-stick. His invention was blocked by EU rules, but the artist found a factory in Romania that carried out the project, Petranyi said.
The exhibition is entitled "Over the Counter" and will run until September 19.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
