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A10 Scooter Tuning Is Not A Crime

Format: Exhibition with publication and accompanying event

Preferred time: Mid-September through the end of November 2025

In 2025, the youngest members of Generation Y will be 30 years old. The characteristics commonly attributed to them often lead to disputes and should be viewed critically since they are being attributed to young people growing up in Western countries who participate in a largely peaceful democracy based on a market economy.

‘Born’ before the arrival of mobile phones but having grown up in a digital world, in the dotcom bubble with its explosion of data, and subjected to intense media reporting, Generation Y has lived a highly exposed life. After 9/11 came the wars in Iraq and Iran, the global financial crisis and the European debt crisis, accompanied by well-documented global climate disasters. Although the flood of information has taken place alongside technological progress, rather than being given tools to deal with it, Generation Y has been forced to operate in the field of tension between the analog and digital spheres. Within this context, however, potential for experimentation has opened up, taking effect among youth cultures in public space, but also on platforms like YouTube. The scooter-scene slogan „Scooter Tuning Is Not A Crime“ reflects a generation’s view on the possibility of active participation, but also an insistence on developing its own values.

The exhibition project aims to bring artists belonging to this generation together to disclose and negotiate strategies for not merely reproducing crises, but showcasing ways of dealing with them. Autobiographical portrayals of subjective frames of reference are juxtaposed with identities and individual realities, adding up to a collective phenomenon. Artistic activity becomes a tool for overcoming current conditions, as transformative forces take effect.

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