The virtual, multi-media exhibition is built around Allen Ginsberg's work and personality ( curated by Jean -Jacques Lebel) It provides insight into the history of the legendary beat generation, which began in the 1940s in New York and San Francisco,which then spread like wildfire around the world in various forms.

The exhibition material consists of performance recordings, films (including classics like Pull My Daisy) , text , photographs , reports, manuscripts and reproductions of previously unpublished documents. The generation with writers like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughsused new language and lead a life after the Second World War unlike before. It created a poetic vision of the world still valid today. Jean -Jacques Lebel's a previously not shown interview with Ginsberg filmed in Paris is also part of the exhibition.

The exhibition was realised through the cooperation of three French and one German institutions (Centre Pompidou Metz, Champs Libres, Rennes , Fresnoy, Tourcoing , ZKM , Karlsruhe ) in the spring of 2013. In Budapest accompanying programs will be added, adapted to the location.