HeartBeat 22
March 16 - October 01, 2023
National Museum of Contemporary Art - Bucharest
Aripa E4
Due to the repeated generosity of the Ministry of Culture, a total of 385 works (359 acquisitions, 26 donations) entered the MNAC Bucharest heritage in 2020 and 2022. HEARTBEAT 22 focuses, of course, on last year's session, but clearly benefits from the gains and conclusions of both moments.
HEARTBEAT 22 no longer possesses the drama of the previous exhibition (presented at the MNAC Bucharest headquarters under the title 12 Years After, and at Kunsthalle Bega and the Craiova Museum of Art respectively, under that of HEARTBEAT 20), but brings us face to face with new challenges.
The spatial layout of the 2020 exhibition underlined the volatile nature of the relationship between the Museum and artistic production, emphasising ephemerality, improvisation and chance. Two years (and a bit more) later, in the main space of MNAC Bucharest, the acquisitions exhibition reflects the fact that we (artists, specialists, public) participate in the process of building the collection of an institution whose role (among others) is to elaborate the canon of the production of visual creators from/active in post-war Romania.
Concluding the event, in the Dialog space on the 4th floor of the museum, a new exhibition opens, in which seven young artists at the beginning of their career engage in a collective creative and curatorial exercise.
You will see artworks purchased from the following artists: Ana Adam, Arina Ailincăi, Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu, Alexandru Antik, Apparatus 22, Olimpiu Bandalac, József Bartha, Liliana Basarab, Cătălin Bălescu, Ioana Bătrânu, Matei Bejenaru, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Alex Bodea, Irina Botea Bucan, Lucian Bran, Michele Bressan, Liviu Bulea, Cătălin Burcea, Flaviu Cacoveanu, Andrei Chintilă, Aneta Mona Chișa, Dan Cioca, Ciprian Ciuclea, Radu Comșa, Ștefan Constantinescu, Judit Crăciun, Ștefan Radu Crețu, Giulia Crețulescu, Casia Csehi, Miklósi Dénes, Georgiana Dobre & Kjersti Vetterstad, Suzana Fântânariu, Florin Ghenade, Irina Gheorghe, Dani Ghercă, Ana Golici, Nicolae Golici, Teodor Graur, Ion Grigorescu, Dorina Horătău, Mihai Iepure-Górski, Lucia Ghegu, Gheorghe Ilea, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Pavel Ilie, Lucian Indrei, Adelina Ivan, Péter Jecza, Aurora Király, Iosif Király, Szabolcs KissPál, Kund Kopacz, Peter Krausz, Stela Lie, Maxim Liulca, Petru Lucaci, Dragoș Lumpan, Maria Mandea, Andreea Medar, Liliana Mercioiu Popa, Mihai Mihalcea, Olivia Mihălțianu, Alex Mirutziu, Adina Mocanu, Sebastian Moldovan, Ciprian Mureșan, Ion Aurel Mureșan, Vasile Mureșan (Murivale), Sarah Muscalu, Andrei Nacu, Dumitru Oboroc, Christian Paraschiv, Alexandru Păsat, Szacsva y Pál, Cosmin Paulescu, Eugenia Pop, Maria Pop Timaru, Dana Popa, Iulia Toma, Laurențiu Ruță Fulger, Mircea Tohătan, Titu Toncian, Marilena Preda-Sânc, Șerban Radu, Gheorghe Rasovszky, Lea Rasovszky, Bogdan Rața, Cătălin Rulea, Șerban Savu, Elena Scutaru, Larisa Sitar, Ioana Stanca, Liviu Stoicoviciu, Ștefan (Afane) Teodoreanu, Patricia Teodorescu, Dan Vezentan, Ecaterina Vrana, Mădălina Zaharia & Ryan Ormonde, Mihai Zgondoiu. And artworks donated by: Michele Bressan, Nicolae Golici, Cătălin-Marius Petrișor-Hereșanu, Dana Popa, Patricia Teodorescu.
JURY MEMBERS
Horea AVRAM – President of the Romanian branch of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), representative of the Union of Romanian Visual Artists
Cătălin DAVIDESCU – Curator, art critic, Craiova
Prof. Univ. Dr. Ruxandra DEMETRESCU – Doctoral School of the National University of Arts in Bucharest
Dr. Zoran ERIĆ – Independent curator; 2002-2021: Chief curator of the Belgrade Contemporary Art Museum (member of the MNAC Scientific Board)
Conf. Univ. Dr. Cătălin GHEORGHE – the Art History and Theory Department of the Visual Arts and Design Faculty, the “George Enescu” National Arts University in Iași
Diana MARINCU – Artistic director, Art Encounters Foundation, Timișoara
Frances MORRIS – Director, Tate Modern, London (member of the MNAC Scientific Board)
Conf. Univ. Dr. Mara-Victoria RAȚIU – Rector, The Arts and Design University in Cluj-Napoca (member of the MNAC Scientific Board)
Jarosław SUCHAN – Curator independent; 2006-2022: Director Muzeum Sztuki Łódź, Polonia (member of the MNAC Scientific Board)
Andrei SICLODI – Director of Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (member of the MNAC Scientific Board)