The exhibition commemorates Szentendre-born female artists on the 100th birth anniversary of their birth. Margit Anna who has a substantial oeuvre in terms of Hungarian modernism (1913-1991) , Piroska Szántó (1913-1998) and Julia Vajda (1913-1982) began their career in a period could when female artists were provided with art education of the same value as males. Nevertheless, discrimination was still reality for a long time as traditional thinking was basically a male-centric and it evaluated past and present artists according to art historical canon of essentially male view point.

In the painting art of all three artists, in addition to being closely related to modernism primarily represented by the European School of artists' constructive and surrealist tendencies, a specific female point of view can be traced that often manifested in figural representations, often in portraits, in double portraits, in self-portraits or in a still lifes. The title of the exhibition carries the issue of identity these artists faced every day. What is the role designated for them in a so far male-dominated artistic medium. Consequently, issues of (self-) representation often come to the fore. Of course, this phenomenon various with each of them, but the strongest it seems is self-portraits by Margit Anna.

All three artists married a cultural hero of the time: Margit Anna married Imre, Ámos, Júlia Vajda married Lajos Vajda and Piroska Szántó married István Vas. They all survived their husbands Margit Anna and Julia Vajda, however, experienced the loss of a spouse at a young age, and their art was defined by that experience for ever. But after a relatively long marriage for Piroska Szántó, she also constantly painted a series related to her husband 's death, which was a specific solution for dealing with her mourning. Margit Anna and Júlia Vajda worked in the shadow of their husbands. Their situation was mainly difficult due accusation of egoism. Paradoxically, the tragedy they faced at a young age brought the possibility of artistic development for them at the same time. While they carefully nurtured the legacy of their husbands their art that had been in the penumbra before could come to the fore. Margit Anna earlier, inkább Vajda Júlia from the sixties, after fulfilling basic family responsibilities, could spend all their time with art. According to recent research, new monographs showed how independent artistic personalities they were. Piroska Szántó's case was different because her husband was involved in other art forms .They were not competition for each other,helped in the development of each other's career. It was not by accident that was Piroska Szántó could really show her talent as illustrator for literary works.

The exhibitors, however, are not only linked by their gender or social relations but also their connection to Szentendre too. For this reason, we added two painters - Mária Modok (1896-1971) and Erzsébet Vaszkó (1902-1986) - to the exhibition as their attitude to art circles in Szentendre is also proven by Endre Bálint. " It seems that not only men , but art can hardly tolerate the lack of women."