Venue: aqb Project Space, 48–50 Nagytétényi Road, 1222 Budapest
Opening: June 5, 2026, 6:00 PM
On view: June 5 – July 3, 2026, Wednesday to Friday 3:00–6:00 PM, and Saturdays 1:00–5:00 PM
The group exhibition 65 +/- explores one of the most significant yet invisible issues facing aging societies: the marginalization of older people. It is grounded in the fundamental realization that old age is the inevitable future of us all.
Systemic ageism perpetuates conceptions of old age as alienating social constructs, further aggravated by economic vulnerability and the lack of adequate legal protections. In contrast to the approaches typically found in political, economic, or healthcare discourses, the exhibition emphasizes the self-organizing potential of older generations and the possibility of experiencing retirement as an active, community-oriented stage of life. The exhibited works, along with participatory practices developed in collaboration with older adults, create space for individual voices hidden behind the umbrella term “retiree”, while also attempting to rethink ingrained social narratives surrounding aging.
Exhibiting artists: Eszter Bíró, Viola Fátyol, Nóra Juhász, OFF Foundation (Júlia Garai, Adrienn Hód, Máté Kőrösi, Zsófia Tamara Vadas), Dorottya Poór, Zsuzsanna Simon, Viktória Szabó, Lilla Szász, Balázs Turós
Curators: Réka Birkás, Zsinka Szabó, Veronika Zachar
Graphic design: Gergő Kincses and Viktória Szabó
The exhibition is the degree project of students in the final year of the MA program in Contemporary Art Theory and Curatorial Studies at the Fine Art Theory Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. Supervisor: Tamás Milán Don
The exhibition is supported by the National Cultural Fund of Hungary.
