The Art of Being Me

28th September 2023 – 10th January 2024

Please Give Me Something, I Can Refuse

Contemporary art from Austria, Hungary, Romania, Germany and Ukraine

Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest

Artists:
Yuliia Makarenko
Kincső Bede
Arnold Reinisch
Eszter Szabó
Lotti Brockmann
Nadja Brachvogel

Curators:
Martin Baasch & Krisztián Kukla

The exhibition PLEASE GIVE ME SOMETHING, I CAN REFUSE presents the work of six contemporary artists who explore the theme of identity from different perspectives. The issue of personal identity has long since transcended the private sphere and has become a contentious issue. The various debates are no longer simply about everyday social norms, life paths and personal freedom, but about politically motivated strategies of exclusion.

The exhibition includes works that challenge dominant discourses in individual ways, replacing them with fluid narratives and deliberately ambiguous settings of social function, origin, gender or class.