Venue: Župný dom, Mierové námestie 46, Trenčín
Duration: August 8 – December 7, 2026
Opening: August 7, 2026
Curators: Edit András and Ilona Németh
Exhibition architect: Zbyněk Baladrán
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx characterized his era as one in which ‘all that is solid melts into air‘ and man is forced to confront ‘the real conditions of life‘ and ‘his relations with his kind‘. This phrase resonates profoundly with the present era, in which the real conditions of life have drastically worsened, and man’s relations have become hostile not only with his own kind but also with the global environment.
The dissolution of the social, economic and political structures we were familiar with is being eroded: democracies are being dismantled and replaced by autocracies, supported by the rhetoric of ethnic nationalism and populism, while economic inequalities are rapidly growing in the shadow of ecological disaster. The conventions and agreements on which the world has been based have been rendered invalid, while brute force, violence and aggression have become the norm in all areas: the global landscape is marked by heightened geopolitical tensions; wars, expansionism and neo-colonialism.
Renowned international artists offer their insights into different segments of the precarious situation, address pressing issues and illuminate different aspects of our troubled world, or offer alternative ideas to deal with the multiple predicaments from a glocal perspective.
Exhibiting artists: Kateryna Aliinyk (UK), Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan (RO), Border Emergency Collective (PL), Cooking Section (GB), András Cséfalvay (SK), Disobedience Archive – Marco Scotini (IT), Ferenc Gróf & Zsófia Gyenes (FR), Sanja Iveković (HR), Szabolcs Kisspál (HU), Hito Steyerl (DE), Zdena Kolečková (CZ), Oliver Ressler (AT), Emília Rigová (SK), Lucia Tkáčová (SK), Jaro Varga (SK), Martin Zetová (CZ), Artur Żmijewski (PL).
