The Hungarian-language New Symposion, published in Yugoslavia, was a bold, critical journal that consciously embraced spontaneity. The creative workshop around the editorial office, which was growing into a movement, created an exciting, experimental literary and artistic environment in Vojvodina.
Struggling with the Hungarian linguistic isolation, but at the same time taking advantage of the Yugoslavian openness, which allowed for a fresher cultural orientation than in Hungary, the generations associated with the journal, the successive editors, shaped it with varying emphases on literature, visual culture and social criticism, with different temperaments, in line with cultural policy expectations and possibilities.
Although the New Symposion’s history seems to have been continuous, it suffered inevitable breaks with bans, court trials and the removal of the editorial board in 1983, and the South Slavic war finally ran out of steam.
In addition to the literature, the exhibition focuses on the exceptionally strong visuality of the paper. The exhibition reveals the image of the successive editors, the journal’s key figures and its links with Hungary.