Opening: September 28, 2025, 6:00 PM
On view: September 28 – October 10, 2025
Venue: Studio of Young Artists’ Association (1074 Budapest, Rottenbiller u. 35.)

The exhibition takes as its starting point The Last Man Alive, a children's book written by Scottish author and educator A. S. Neill, first published in 1938 and later released in Germany in 1971 under the title Die grüne Wolke (The Green Cloud). Created collaboratively by Neill and his students as a collective writing exercise, the book explores the possibilities of democratic pedagogical practice.
The exhibition not only engages in dialogue with The Green Cloud, but also adopts the authors’ speculative attitude. It contemporizes and appropriates the concerns articulated by the book’s protagonists—concerns that, in light of today’s economic, political, and ecological threats, are more urgent than ever. The artworks operate at the intersection of dystopia and societal transformation, proposing education—its current systems and tools—as both a malleable structure and a potential reproducer of global crisis. Rather than focus on catastrophe scenarios, the pseudo-dystopia constructed within the exhibition space aims to explore the formation of new possibilities and frameworks. It seeks out potential responses from the younger generation.

Exhibiting artists

Academy of Fine Arts Munich, class of Anke Doberauer:
Lisa Bahuschewskaja, Serafina Gmach, Paul Graßl, Leon Habelt, Sevilay Hannas, Helge Hossfeld, Julija Kalinova, Senshu Mia, Ilvie Schlotfeldt, Jodi Smith, Panni Somody, Hala Almany Timraz, Benigno Alba Valdés, Anna Wandaller, Chenzhong Xu

Hungarian University of Fine Arts, class of Mária Chilf:
Veronika Barna, Simon Boros, Vivien Cserneczky, Julián Horniák, Kincső Kiss, Tamara Lennert, Júlia Pais-Horváth, Réka Petőcz, Virág Sári, Klára Schanda, Csenge Szalontai, Zsigmond Tolnai, Hanna Vámosi

Curators
Ferenc Domokos, András Nagy, Zsinka Szabó, Sára Tomcsányi

Cooperation between Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Anke Doberauer) and the Hungarian University of Fine Art Budapest, Departments of Painting (Mária Chilf) and Fine Arts Theory (Tünde Varga).