The year of 1968 started with great hopes in some Central- and Eastern European countries: for a brief moment it seemed that strict ideology was being replaced by political pragmatism.
Elements of consumer culture, and even the private sector, appeared; cultural censorship was loosened – or even lifted. The whirlwind of the Western protest movements reached the region as well, while counter culture also left its mark on Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, and Hungary. And similarly to Western youth, young people from behind the Iron Curtain also wanted to correct the mistakes of the previous generation, and found their own voice and their own ways to express themselves. Creating a fictional international youth magazine, the exhibition “Farewell to Spring” presents this thriving and hopeful period of student protests, happenings and other events of youth- and counter culture, which ended with the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.

FAREWELL TO SPRING
Revolutionary Youth Magazines, 1968. Nr 2
June 21 – September 16, 2018 művészek I artists
ALTORJAY Gábor Jerzy BEREŚ Eugen BRIKCIUS Stano FILKO Tomislav GOTOVAC GULYÁS Gyula Matjaž HANŽEK Tadeusz KANTOR KEMÉNY György Milan KNÍŽÁK KONKOLY Gyula Július KOLLER Marko POGAČNIK RED PERISTYLE SZENTJÓBY Tamás Želimir ŽILNIK et.al.
kurátor I curated by SZÉKELY Katalin
koncepció I concept by MÉLYI József, SZÉKELY Katalin
kurtátorasszisztens I assistant curator SZÖRÉNYI Péter
kiállításdesign I exhibition design by KRISTÓF Krisztián
Centrális Galéria / Blinken OSA Archívum Galeria Centralis / Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives 1051 Budapest, Arany János u. 32. Kedd–Vasárnap: 10:00 – 18:00 Tuesday–Sunday: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

All photos ©Daniel Vegel / Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives