Familiar Strangers is an exhibition of contemporary art reflecting upon recent changes in Eastern Europe. Sadly, it is only since the violent invasion of Ukraine that the self-understanding of the European collective has expanded beyond the Western viewpoint. The exhibition presents political and social processes from the perspectives of multiple and critical identities in a region that was long considered to be culturally homogenous, even if this was never truly the case. Familiar Strangers is an encounter of various voices: specifically of diasporas and minorities and their political struggles. It shows how fragile and complex those two-way negotiations are, between the transcultural and the local, the individual and the collective, the familiar and the uncanny in a post-communist society... Read more